Codex Ebnerianus

Description

It is now believed to have been written in Constantinople at the start of the 12th century, during the Comnenian Period. 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. 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.

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.

The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivory and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm). 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.{{Cite book | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | author-link = Kurt Aland | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | url-access = registration

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.

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

References

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
2. ''The harmony of the Gospels. With an account of ancient MSS. and of the various tr. of the Scriptures'' Oxford University 1863
3. It was once believed to have been written in 1391
4. Cecelia Meredith,[https://www.jstor.org/pss/750726 The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus] {{Webarchive. link. (31 October 2022 ; ''Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29, (1966)'')
5. (1991). "The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium". Oxford University Press.
6. p. 304; Thomas Hartwell, ''[https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont00horngoog An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography]''; T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814; Original from the New York Public Library
7. Thomas Hartwell Horne, ''An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'' Published by E. Littell, 1825
8. 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.