Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 70
Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo (encoder)
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
Collection: Orientali
Other identifiers: Marrassini ms. 2, BML 2
General description
Number of Text units: 25
Number of Codicological units: 2
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Origin
XVI c.
Provenance
Zotenberg 1877 says that Johann-Michael Wansleben used a manuscript from Florence, which might be this one.
This could be the model of the edition of the second volume of the New Testament by Tasfā Ṣǝyon (1549 ). This volume come from Cyprus↗ via Republic of Venice↗ .
Catalogue Bibliography
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Marrassini, P. 1984. ‘I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 30 (1984), 81–116 (DOI: 10.2307/41299683). page 88-91
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. 2015. ‘Johann Michael Wansleben’s manuscripts and texts. An update’, in A. Bausi, A. Gori, D. Nosnitsin, and E. Sokolinski, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies. Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014, Supplement to Aethiopica, 4 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 197–244. page 230
Physical Description
Form of support
Paper Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 253mm |
Width | 165mm |
Foliation
- Penned numbers added on the right top corner from a european hand.
Binding
European
Binding material
parchment
Codicological Unit p1
Contents
Additions of codicological unit 1 In this unit there are in total 1 .
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Fols. 201v, 203, 204 (Type: GuestText)
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Monastic rules Rules on the relationship of the monks to the monastery when they leave.
Physical Description of codicological unit 1
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | 1 | 5 |
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Five leafs bound together. 1 added |
2 | 2 | 11 |
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1 added |
3 | 3 | 10 |
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4 | 4 | 13 |
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3 added |
5 | 5 | 9 |
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9, no stub |
6 | 6 | 10 |
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7 | 7 | 10 |
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8 | 8 | 11 |
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10, stub before 1 |
9 | 9 | 10 |
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10 | 10 | 10 |
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11 | 11 | 10 |
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12 | 12 | 10 |
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13 | 13 | 10 |
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14 | 14 | 10 |
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15 | 15 | 10 |
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16 | 16 | 10 |
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17 | 17 | 10 |
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18 | 18 | 10 |
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19 | 19 | 10 |
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20 | 20 | 11 |
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11, stub before 1 |
21 | 21 | 7 |
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Collation diagrams
Five leafs bound together. 1 added
Quire ID:q1, number:1
1 added
Quire ID:q2, number:2
Quire ID:q3, number:3
3 added
Quire ID:q4, number:4
9, no stub
Quire ID:q5, number:5
Quire ID:q6, number:6
Quire ID:q7, number:7
10, stub before 1
Quire ID:q8, number:8
Quire ID:q9, number:9
Quire ID:q10, number:10
Quire ID:q11, number:11
Quire ID:q12, number:12
Quire ID:q13, number:13
Quire ID:q14, number:14
Quire ID:q15, number:15
Quire ID:q16, number:16
Quire ID:q17, number:17
Quire ID:q18, number:18
Quire ID:q19, number:19
11, stub before 1
Quire ID:q20, number:20
5 added
Quire ID:q21, number:21
Notes: 1)
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(5/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (, +1), 2 (, +1), 3 (10), 4 (13, +3), 5 (9), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (11), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (10), 13 (10), 14 (10), 15 (10), 16 (10), 17 (10), 18 (10), 19 (10), 20 (11), 21 (7, +5),
Formula 2: 1 (, first leaf is added), 2 (, first leaf is added), 3 (10), 4 (13, leaf added after fol. 28), 5 (9), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (11), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (10), 13 (10), 14 (10), 15 (10), 16 (10), 17 (10), 18 (10), 19 (10), 20 (11), 21 (7, leaf added after fol. 204),
Layout of codicological unit 1
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 21
Palaeography of codicological unit 1
Hand 1
of codicological unit 1Script: Ethiopic
Date: XVI c.
Not nice XVI c. Fols 1r–203vHand 2
of codicological unit 1Script: Ethiopic
Date: more recent than Hand h1 of codicological unit 1 .
Not nice more recent than Hand h1 of codicological unit 1 . Fol. 204rHand 4
of codicological unit 1Script: Ethiopic
Date: XVI XVII
European hand which added chapters numbers by pen XVI or XVII c.Hand 5
of codicological unit 1Script: Ethiopic
Date: perhaps of the same date of the manuscript?
European hand which added some numbers quickly, sometimes only graffiti on the margins, cyclically from 1 to 16, certainly in preparation of a print edition, of which some drafts are attached at the end of the manuscript (fol. 206 ) perhaps of the same date of the manuscript?Codicological Unit p2
Contents
Fols 206v–209v
Fol. 208v First Epistle to the Thessalonians (CAe 3522) 1 Thess. 4:12-5:17 corresponding to fols 146r–148r
Fol. 209r First Epistle to the Thessalonians (CAe 3522) 1 Thess. 2:5 corresponding to fols 140v–142r
Physical Description of codicological unit 2
Extent of codicological unit 2
Foliation of codicological unit 2
- Fols. 207r, numbered 209, 209r numbered 215
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Publication Statement
Edition Statement
The images of the manuscript taken by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel during a mission funded by the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, the ERC Advanced Grant TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Grant Agreement no. 338756) and Beta maṣāḥǝft.
The images are published in conjunction with this descriptive data about the manuscript with the permission of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, prot. 190/28.13.10.01/2.23 of the 24 January 2019 and are available for research purposes.
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Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Alessandro Bausi, ʻFlorence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 70ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-09-20) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLor70 [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo added text from transkribus and facsimile with xi:include on 20.9.2021
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Completed encoding of main features (contents list, collation, structure of description, physical description) from Marrassini Catalogue on 27.2.2019
- Dorothea Reule Created catalogue entry on 22.11.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Dorothea Reule, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, editor