Codex Ebnerianus

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
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

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]

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

Description

It is now believed to have been written in Constantinople at the start of the 12th century, 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 as 105e, 48a, and 24p. In 1908 Gregory gave it the number 105.[1]

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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ It was once believed to have been written in 1391
  5. ^ Cecelia Meredith,The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus Archived 31 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine; 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. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 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.