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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Aeth. c. 3

Dorothea Reule

This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography

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https://betamasaheft.eu/BDLaethc3
Bodleian Library[view repository]

Collection: Codices aethiopici

Other identifiers: Ullendorff 77, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project EMIP03455

Places IndexPersons IndexGeneralDescriptionPhysical DescriptionCatalogueAuthors

General description

Hagiographic dossier of Takla Hāymānot

Number of Text units: 3

Number of Codicological units: 1

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Origin

1600-1650 (dating on palaeographic grounds) ?

Original Location: Madḫāne ʿĀlam↗

Provenance

The manuscript very probably belonged to the church of Madḫāne ʿAlam↗ and was looted by the British Napier expedition in 1868. It was purchased by the Bodleian Library↗ in 1893.

Summary

  1. ms_i1 (check the viewerFols 4r–95r ), Gadla Takla Hāymānot (Dabra Libānos recension, general record)
  2. ms_i2 (check the viewerFols 95r–104v ), Maṣḥafa fǝlsatu la-Takla Hāymānot (general record)
  3. ms_i3 (check the viewerFols 105r–122v ), Taʾammǝra Takla Hāymānot

Contents

check the viewerFols 4r–95r Gadla Takla Hāymānot (Dabra Libānos recension, general record) (CAe 1507)

Language of text:

check the viewerFol. 4r contains the introduction and chapter 1. Chapter 8 (unnumbered) begins on check the viewerfol. 8r .
check the viewerFols 95r–104v Maṣḥafa fǝlsatu la-Takla Hāymānot (general record) (CAe 1929)

Language of text:

The introductory note on check the viewerfol. 95v is lengthier than in .
check the viewerFols 105r–122v Taʾammǝra Takla Hāymānot (CAe 3971)

Language of text:

18 miracles, which are not identical with those of , but - with the exception of the 18th - largely the same as those in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éth. 343.

Additions In this unit there are in total .

  1. check the viewerFol. 1r

    In the right-hand top corner in an inexperienced European hand:

    ( gez ) አርቱር፡ ወልልስሊ፡ ረይ። መቅደላ፡↗ አጵሪል፡ አሥራ፡ ሶስት፡ ፪፻፻፡ ፰፻፡ ፷፰።

  2. check the viewerFol. 1r

    Original signature of the prisoners who had been detained at Tewodros II 's Court and were the object of the British military expedition.

    ( en ) H. Rassam Laurence Kerans W. F. Prideaux J. M. Flad H. Blanc Mrs. H. Rosenthal H. Rosenthal H. A. Stern

Extras

  1. The owner was ʾAdarā Giyorgis owner .

  2. check the viewerFol. 1r

    The first two lines of the text, which are then repeated on check the viewerfol. 4r , probably used as a pen trial.

Decoration In this unit there are in total 40 s.

Miniatures notes

  1. miniature: check the viewerFol. 2v

    St George of Lydda and the Dragon, in the traditional Ethiopian style. There is no explanatory note.

  2. miniature: check the viewerFol. 3r

    St Mary and the Child, with Gabriel and Michael as attendants.

  3. miniature: check the viewerFol. 3v
  4. miniature: check the viewerFol. 12r
  5. miniature: check the viewerFol. 12v
  6. miniature: check the viewerFol. 29r
  7. miniature: check the viewerFol. 29v
  8. miniature: check the viewerFol. 38r
  9. miniature: check the viewerFol. 38v
  10. miniature: check the viewerFol. 47r
  11. miniature: check the viewerFol. 47v
  12. miniature: check the viewerFol. 56r
  13. miniature: check the viewerFol. 56v
  14. miniature: check the viewerFol. 73r
  15. miniature: check the viewerFol. 73v
  16. miniature: check the viewerFol. 82r
  17. miniature: check the viewerFol. 82v
  18. miniature: check the viewerFol. 104v
  19. miniature: check the viewerFol. 105v
  20. miniature: check the viewerFol. 106v
  21. miniature: check the viewerFol. 107r
  22. miniature: check the viewerFol. 107v
  23. miniature: check the viewerFol. 108v
  24. miniature: check the viewerFol. 110r
  25. miniature: check the viewerFol. 111r
  26. miniature: check the viewerFol. 111v
  27. miniature: check the viewerFol. 112r
  28. miniature: check the viewerFol. 112v
  29. miniature: check the viewerFol. 113v
  30. miniature: check the viewerFol. 114r
  31. miniature: check the viewerFol. 114v
  32. miniature: check the viewerFol. 115r
  33. miniature: check the viewerFol. 115v
  34. miniature: check the viewerFol. 116r
  35. miniature: check the viewerFol. 117r
  36. miniature: check the viewerFol. 118v
  37. miniature: check the viewerFol. 119r
  38. miniature: check the viewerFol. 120r
  39. miniature: check the viewerFol. 121r
  40. miniature: check the viewerFol. 122r

Catalogue Bibliography

  • Ullendorff, E. 1951. Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, II, Catalogi Codd. Mss. Bibliothecae Bodleianae, 7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951).
    page 18ab
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Physical Description

Form of support

Parchment Codex

Extent

124 (leaf) .Entered as 124 2 (folio, blank) : Entered as 2 check the viewerFols. 1v, 2r 14 12
Outer dimensions
Height 14in
Width 12in

State of preservation

good

Condition

Binding

Ethiopian binding: wooden boards covered with leather and lined with red cloth.

Original binding

No

Layout

Layout note 1

Number of columns: 2

Number of lines: 24

Palaeography

  • Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    Written in a very fine hand, probably early part of the 17th century.

    Ink: Black, red.

    Rubrication: The name of Takla Hāymānot is invariably rubricated.

    Date: 1600-1650 ?

    1600-1650 ?

  • Hand 2

    Scribe: Arthur Wellesley Ray scribe

    Script: Ethiopic

    Written in an inexperienced European hand.

    Date: 1863-1868

    1863-1868 Arthur Wellesley Ray scribe

    • Publication Statement

    authority
    Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
    publisher
    Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
    pubPlace
    Hamburg
    availability
    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
    date
    type=expanded
    10.10.2022 at 18:43:18
    date
    type=lastModified
    9.6.2017
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    type=collection
    manuscripts
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    type=url
    https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BDLaethc3/main
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    https://betamasaheft.eu/BDLaethc3
    idno
    type=filename
    BDLaethc3.xml
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    type=ID
    BDLaethc3

    Encoding Description

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    Dorothea Reule, Alessandro Bausi, ʻOxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Aeth. c. 3ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 9.6.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BDLaethc3 [Accessed: 2024-04-24+02:00]

    Revisions of the data

    • Dorothea Reule Changes on 9.6.2017
    • Dorothea Reule Changes on 3.3.2017
    • Dorothea Reule Created catalogue entry on 24.2.2017

    Attributions of the contents

    Alessandro Bausi, general editor

    Dorothea Reule, editor

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