Codex Ebnerianus

Codex Ebnerianus, Minuscule 105 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 257 (Soden),[1] is a Greek language illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, though missing the Book of Revelation.[2]

Not to be confused with another Codex Ebnerianus, the 15th-century manuscript copy of Ptolemy's Geography in the New York Public Library
Minuscule 105
New Testament manuscript
Gospel of John 1:5-10
NameCodex Ebnerianus
TextNew Testament (except Rev)
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size20.5 by 16 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV

Formerly it was labeled by 105e, 48a, and 24p.[3]

Description

It is believed written in Constantinople at the start of the 12thC during the Comnenian Period.[4] It is unique amongst surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts in that it places author portraits before each epistle, act and gospel, as opposed to just the gospels.[5] This manuscript gives a good example of Greek calligraphy of the 12th century. The manuscript is marked with Georgian quire signatures, but was still in Constantinople in the 16th century.[6]

The text is written in 1 column per page, 27 lines per page, on 426 parchment leaves (20.5 by 16 cm). Capital letters in gold.[3]

The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivory[7] and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm).[8] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, tables of the κεφαλαια, the τιτλοι, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the margin, the Ammonian Sections, but not o references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end, στιχοι, and the Nicene Creed all in gold.[9] Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.[9]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[10] It belongs to the textual family Family Kx.[11]

History

The codex is named after Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach (1673–1752); a Nuremberg diplomat and German Enlightenment historian, who founded a library using his extensive collection.

Formerly it was labeled by 105e, 48a, and 24p. In 1908 Gregory gave for it number 105.[1]

It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10).[12]

See also

References
  1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 52.
  2. The harmony of the Gospels. With an account of ancient MSS. and of the various tr. of the Scriptures Oxford University 1863
  3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 152.
  4. It was once believed to have been written in 1391
  5. Cecelia Meredith,The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus; Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29, (1966)
  6. Kazhdan, Alexander P., ed. (1991). "Codex Ebnerianus". The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. pp. 473–474. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  7. p. 304; Thomas Hartwell, An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814; Original from the New York Public Library
  8. Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures Published by E. Littell, 1825
  9. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 208.
  10. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  11. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 54. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  12. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.
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