Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Aeth. 75
Massimo Villa
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
Letter of king Galāwdewos to pope Paul III
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Original Location: According to the cataloguer, the document was probably written in Rome↗ or in Ethiopia under a European supervision.
1541Summary
- ms_i1 (check the viewerFol. 1 ), Letter of king to pope
Contents
Additions In this unit there are in total 1 , 1 .
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check the viewerFol. 1v (Type: AcquisitionNote)
( de ) W. Meyer. gekauft in Florenz. 1903
The note is written in German with a black ballpoint pen and states that the letter was purchased in Florence↗ in 1903. -
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( la ) Bibliothecae Vaticanae dedit Wilh. Meyer Spirensis 1906
The note is written in Latin in black ink and states that the letter was given to the Vatican Library in 1906.
Extras
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The title of the document ( la ) Exemplum litter"arum" Regis ad Paulu"m" Pont"ificem" R"omanum" in written on the upper margin in a 16th-century hand. The ink is partly faded out.
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The title of the document ( la ) Exemplu"m" litt"erarum" Regis Claudij Aethiopis ad Paul"um" Rom"anum" Ponteficem in written on the right margin in a 16th-century hand. The ink is partly faded out.
Catalogue Bibliography
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Grébaut, S. and E. Tisserant 1935. Bybliothecae apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti iussu Pii XI Pontificis maximi. Codices Aethiopici Vaticani et Borgiani, Barberinianus orientalis 2, Rossianus 865, I: Enarratio codicum (Città del Vaticano: In Bybliotheca Vaticana, 1935).page 283
Text Bibliography
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Duensing, H. 1904. ‘Ein Brief des abessinischen Königs Af Sagad (Claudius) an Papst Paul III aus dem Jahre 1541’, Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschafien zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, (1904), 1–24.
Translation Bibliography
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Duensing, H. 1904. ‘Ein Brief des abessinischen Königs Af Sagad (Claudius) an Papst Paul III aus dem Jahre 1541’, Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschafien zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, (1904), 1–24.
Translation Bibliography
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Petrus Aethiops 1549. Modus baptizandi, preces et benedictiones quibus Ecclesia Ethiopum utitur, cum sacerdotes benedicunt puerperae unà cum infante Ecclesiam ingredienti, post quadragesimum puerperij diem. Item orationes quibus ijdem utuntur in sacramento baptismi et confirmationis. Item missa qua communiter utuntur, quae etiam canon uniuersalis appellatur nunc primum ex lingua Chaldea siue Aethiopica in Latinam conuersae (Romae: apud Antonium Bladum, 1549).
Translation Bibliography
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Duensing, H. 1904. ‘Ein Brief des abessinischen Königs Af Sagad (Claudius) an Papst Paul III aus dem Jahre 1541’, Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschafien zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, (1904), 1–24.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Leaf
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 525mm |
Width | 205mm |
Foliation
Quire Structure Collation
Signatures:
State of preservation
good
Condition
The document is remarkable for the whiteness of the parchment, which is unusual in Ethiopian manuscripts.
Binding
Binding material
parchment
paper
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Written in a mid-16th century handwriting
Ink:
Rubrication:
Date: 1541
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Massimo Villa, Alessandro Bausi, Dorothea Reule, ʻVatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Aeth. 75ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 11.2.2020) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BAVet75 [Accessed: 2024-04-26+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Added link to images on 11.2.2020
- Massimo Villa Created catalogue entry on 24.4.2017
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Massimo Villa, editor
Dorothea Reule, contributor