Codex Ebnerianus - The Encyclopedia

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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 105
Gospel of John 1:5-10
Name	Codex Ebnerianus
Text	New Testament (except Rev)
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	20.5 by 16 cm
Category	V

Codex Ebnerianus, Minuscule 105 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek language illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, though missing the Book of Revelation.^[1] It is believed written in Constantinople at the start of the 12^thC during the Comnenian Period.^[2] It is unique amongst surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts in that it places author potraits before each epistle, act and gospel.^[3] This manuscript gives a good example of Greek calligraphy of the 12th century.

The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivory ^[4] and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm).^[5] It is housed at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10).^[6]

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

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^ The harmony of the Gospels. With an account of ancient MSS. and of the various tr. of the Scriptures Oxford University 1863
^ It was once believed to have been written in 1391
^ Cecelia Meredith,The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus; Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29, (1966)
^ p. 304; Thomas Hartwell; An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814; Original from the New York Public Library
^ Thomas Hartwell Horne An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures Published by E. Littell, 1825
^ 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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