Minuscule 105

Minuscule 105

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
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
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

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

Formerly it was labeled by 105^e, 48^a, and 24^p.

It is believed written in Constantinople at the start of the 12thC 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.Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.