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]
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 Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια, the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι, numbers of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια at the margin, the Ammonian Sections, but not o references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end, Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|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]
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]