✖Here you can explore some general information about the project. See also Beta maṣāḥəft institutional web page. Select About to meet the project team and our partners. Visit the Guidelines section to learn about our encoding principles. The section Data contains the Linked Open Data information, and API the Application Programming Interface documentation for those who want to exchange data with the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. The Permalinks section documents the versioning and referencing earlier versions of each record.
Click to get back to the home page. Here you can find out more about the project team, the cooperating projects, and the contact information. You can also visit our institutional page. Find out more about our Encoding Guidelines. In this section our Linked Open Data principles are explained. Developers can find our Application Programming Interface documentation here. The page documents the use of permalinks by the project.
✖Descriptions of (predominantly) Christian manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea are the core of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. We (1) gradually encode descriptions from printed catalogues, beginning from the historical ones, (2) incorporate digital descriptions produced by other projects, adjusting them wherever possible, and (3) produce descriptions of previously unknown and/or uncatalogued manuscripts. The encoding follows the TEI XML standards (check our guidelines).
Shelf marks (full list)Manuscripts (search)List of Digitized ManuscriptsCatalogues EncodedInscriptions
✖We identify each unit of content in every manuscript. We consider any text with an independent circulation a work, with its own identification number within the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). Parts of texts (e.g. chapters) without independent circulation (univocally identifiable by IDs assigned within the records) or recurrent motifs as well as documentary additional texts (identified as Narrative Units) are not part of the CAe. You can also check the list of different types of text titles or various Indexes available from the top menu.
Clavis Aethiopica (Works)Narrative UnitsStudies
The clavis is a repertory of all known works relevant for the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition; the work being defined as any text with an independent circulation. Each work (as well as known recensions where applicable) receives a unique identifier in the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). In the filter search offered here one can search for a work by its title, a keyword, a short quotation, but also directly by its CAe identifier - or, wherever known and provided, identifier used by other claves, including Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (BHG), Clavis Patrum Graecorum (CPG), Clavis Coptica (CC), Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti (CAVT), Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti (CANT), etc. The project additionally identifies Narrative Units to refer to text types, where no clavis identification is possible or necessary. Recurring motifs or also frequently documentary additiones are assigned a Narrative Unit ID, or thematically clearly demarkated passages from various recensions of a larger work. This list view shows the documentary collections encoded by the project Ethiopian Manuscript Archives (EMA) and its successor EthioChrisProcess - Christianization and religious interactions in Ethiopia (6th-13th century) : comparative approaches with Nubia and Egypt, which aim to edit the corpus of administrative acts of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, for medieval and modern periods. See also the list of documents contained in the additiones in the manuscripts described by the Beta maṣāḥǝft project . Works of interest to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies.
✖While encoding manuscripts, the project Beta maṣāḥǝft aims at creating an exhaustive repertory of art themes and techniques present in Ethiopian and Eritrean Christian tradition. See our encoding guidelines for details. Two types of searches for aspects of manuscript decoration are possible, the decorations filtered search and the general keyword search.
Index of decorationsArt KeywordsIlluminations
The filtered search for decorations, originally designed with Jacopo Gnisci, looks at decorations and their features only. The filters on the left are relative only to the selected features, reading the legends will help you to figure out what you can filter. For example you can search for all encoded decorations of a specific art theme, or search the encoded legends. If the decorations are present, but not encoded, you will not get them in the results. If an image is available, you will also find a thumbnail linking to the image viewer. [NB: The Index of Decorations currently often times out, we are sorry for the inconvenience.] You can search for particular motifs or aspects, including style, also through the keyword search. Just click on "Art keywords" and "Art themes" on the left to browse through the options. This is a short cut to a search for all those manuscripts which have miniatures of which we have images.
✖We create metadata for all places associated with the manuscript production and circulation as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The encoding of places in Beta maṣāḥǝft will thus result in a Gazetteer of the Ethiopian tradition. We follow the principles established by Pleiades and lined out in the Syriaca.org TEI Manual and Schema for Historical Geography which allow us to distinguish between places, locations, and names of places. See also Help page fore more guidance.
PlacesRepositories
This tab offers a filtrable list of all available places. Geographical references of the type "land inhabited by people XXX" is encoded with the reference to the corresponding Ethnic unit (see below); ethnonyms, even those used in geographical contexts, do not appear in this list. Repositories are those locations where manuscripts encoded by the project are or used to be preserved. While they are encoded in the same way as all places are, the view offered is different, showing a list of manuscripts associated with the repository.
✖We create metadata for all persons (and groups of persons) associated with the manuscript production and circulation (rulers, religious authorities, scribes, donors, and commissioners) as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The result will be a comprehensive Prosopography of the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition. See also Help page for more guidance.
Persons and groupsEthnic units
We encode persons according to our Encoding Guidelines. The initial list was inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix. We consider ethnonyms as a subcategory of personal names, even when many are often used in literary works in the context of the "land inhabited by **". The present list of records has been mostly inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix.
✖This section collects some additional resources offered by the project. Select Bibliography to explore the references cited in the project records. The Indexes list different types of project records (persons, places, titles, keywords, etc). Visit Projects for information on partners that have input data directly in the Beta maṣāḥǝft database. Special ways of exploring the data are offered under Visualizations. Two applications were developed in cooperation with the project TraCES, the Gǝʿǝz Morphological Parser and the Online Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae.
BibliographyIndexesProjectsVisualizationsGǝʿǝz Morphological ParserOnline Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae
Help

You are looking at work in progress version of this website. For questions contact the dev team.

Hover on words to see search options.

Double-click to see morphological parsing.

Click on left pointing hands and arrows to load related items and click once more to view the result in a popup.

Explore this page
Do you want to notify us of an error, please do so by writing an issue in our GitHub repository (click the envelope for a precomiled one).
On small screens, will show a navigation bar on the leftOpen Item Navigation
Edit Not sure how to do this? Have a look at the Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines!
Hide pointersClick here to hide or show again the little arrows and small left pointing hands in this page.
Hide relatedClick here to hide or show again the right side of the content area, where related items and keywords are shown.
EntryMain Entry
TEI/XMLDownload an enriched TEI file with explicit URIs bibliography from Zotero API.
SyntaxeSee graphs of the information available. If the manuscript contains relevant information, then you will see visualizations based on La Syntaxe du Codex, by Andrist, Canart and Maniaci.
RelationsFurther visualization of relational information
TranscriptionTranscription (as available). Do you have a transcription you want to contribute? Contact us or click on EDIT and submit your contribution.
ImagesManuscript images in the Mirador viewer via IIIF

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 28

Denis Nosnitsin (cataloguer)

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

Stub
https://betamasaheft.eu/BNFabb28
Bibliothèque nationale de France[view repository]

Collection: Manuscrits orientaux, Fonds éthiopien, d'Abbadie

Places IndexPersons IndexGeneralDescriptionPhysical DescriptionCatalogueAuthors

General description

Commentary on the Pentateuch, Commentary on the Book of Joshua

Number of Text units: 8

Number of Codicological units: 1

For a table of all relations from and to this record, please go to the Relations view. In the Relations boxes on the right of this page, you can also find all available relations grouped by name.

Origin

18th century, an earlier period (17th century) cannot be excluded. Additional note 3 suggests that the manuscript was related to the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel community. Butts 2013–2014 indicates that, contrary to R. Cowley's claim () and to what may appear at the first glance, the incipit on check the viewerfol. 2r has not been altered (e.g. with the aim of surpressing the Christain doxology, as it commonly happened to Christian manuscripts acquired and customized by Beta ʾƎsrāʾel ). However, Additional note 3, being a doxology considered typical for Beta ʾƎsrāʾel , appears to have been added later, in a different hand. Other features that may be indicative of the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel 's ownership of the manucript have not been addressed yet.

Provenance

The manuscript was acquired by Antoine d'Abbadie owner sometime between 1840 and 1848.

Acquisition

The manuscript entered Bibliothèque nationale de France↗ in 1902.

Summary

  1. ms_i1 (check the viewerFols 2ra–86vb ), Commentary on the books of the Octateuch by Mǝhǝrka Dǝngǝl
    1. ms_i1.1 (check the viewerFols 2ra–86vb ), Commentary on the Pentateuch
      1. ms_i1.1.1 (check the viewerFols 2ra–37vb ), Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Genesis
      2. ms_i1.1.2 (check the viewerFols 38ra–54rb ), Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Exodus
      3. ms_i1.1.3 (check the viewerFols 54rb–64vb ), Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Leviticus
      4. ms_i1.1.4 (check the viewerFols 64vb–75ra ), Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Numbers
      5. ms_i1.1.5 (check the viewerFols 75ra–84ra ), Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Deuteronomy
    2. ms_i1.2 (check the viewerFols 84ra–86vb ), ፍካሬ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ኢያሱ፡ ወልደ፡ ነዌ፡

Contents

check the viewerFols 2ra–86vb Commentary on the books of the Octateuch by Mǝhǝrka Dǝngǝl
check the viewerFols 2ra–86vb Commentary on the Pentateuch (CAe 6608)
check the viewerFols 2ra–37vb Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Genesis (CAe 6608 Genesis)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):በስመ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ አብ፡ ወማ ኅየዊ፡ ንዊጥን፡ ትርጓሜ፡ ኦሪት፡ ዘጸሐፈ፡ ዮሐንስ፡ አፈ፡ ወርቅ፨ በረከቱ፡ ተሃሉ፡ ምስሌነ፨ መጽሐፈ፡ ብሊት፡ ኵለንታሃ፡ በፂዋዌ፡ ጠፉአት፡

check the viewerFols 38ra–54rb Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Exodus (CAe 6608 Exodus)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):ፍካሬ፡ መጽሐፍ፡ ዳግም፡ ወውእቱ፡ ፀአት፡ እምግብጽ፡ ክፍል፡ ቀዳማዊ፡ ዘተሰመየሰ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ፀአት፡ እስመቦ፡ ውስቴቱ፡ ዜና፡ ፀአተ፡ ደቂቀ፡ ፳ኤል፡ እምግብጽ፡ በእንተ፡ ዘቦ፡ ውስቴቱ፡ አስተርእዮተ፡ ጥያቄ፡ ቃላተ፡ ተስፋ፡ አንተ፡ አስፈዎ፡ እግዚ፡ (!) sic by Denis Nosnitsin ለአብርሃም፨

check the viewerFols 54rb–64vb Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Leviticus (CAe 6608 Leviticus)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):መጽሐፍ፡ ሣልስ፡ ወውእቱ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ካህናት፡ ክፍል፡ ቀዳማዊ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ይዕበይ፡ ስሙ፡ ኢአዘዞሙ፡ ለሕዝብ፡ ሠዊዓ፡ መሥዋዕት፡ እንበይነ፡ ረባሕ፡ ዘት፡ መጽእ፡ (!) sic by Denis Nosnitsin ኀቤሁ፡ ዳእሙ፡ ለአሠንዮተ፡ ፍጣሪሁ፨ (!) sic by Denis Nosnitsin

check the viewerFols 64vb–75ra Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Numbers (CAe 6608 Numbers)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):መጽሐፍ፡ ራብዕ፡ ወውእቱ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ኈልቈ፡ ክፍል፡ ቀዳማዊ፡ ወመፍቀዱሰ፡ ለዝንቱ፡ መጽሐፍ፡ አዘክሮተ፡ ኵሉ፡ ሰርዓታት፡ እንተ፡ ሠርዓ፡ እግዚ፡ (!) sic by Denis Nosnitsin ለደቂቀ፡ ፳ኤል፡ ውስተ፡ ገዳም፡ መራር፡

check the viewerFols 75ra–84ra Commentary on the Pentateuch, On Deuteronomy (CAe 6608 Deuteronomy)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):መጽሐፍ፡ ሐምስ፡ ወውእቱ፡ መጽሐፍ፡ ወዳግም፡ ሕግ፡ ክፍል፡ ዳግማይ፡ ወ▧ ▧ ▧ ▧ ▧ommission by Denis Nosnitsin ለሙሴ፡ በደጊመ፡ ሕግ፡ ከመ፡ ይስማዕ፡ ሕዝብ፡ ዳግማዊ፡ እምዘ፡ ቦቱ፡ በከመ፡ ሰምዓ፡ ሕዝብ፡ ቀዳማዊ፡

check the viewerFols 84ra–86vb ፍካሬ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ኢያሱ፡ ወልደ፡ ነዌ፡ (CAe 6817)

Language of text:

Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):ንወጥን፡ በስመ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ሕያው፡ ወወሃቤ፡ ሕይወት፡ ፍካሬ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ኢያሱ፡ ወልደ፡ ነዌ፡ ክፍል፡ ቀዳ፡ ወምክንያቱሰ፡ በእንተ፡ ዘኃረዮሙ፡ እግዚ፡ ለሕዝበ፡ ደቂቀ፡ ፳ኤል፡ ካልእ፡ እሞ፡ ካልአኒሁ።

Additions In this unit there are in total 5 s, 1 , 1 , 4 s, 1 .

  1. check the viewerFol. 1v (Type: Unclear)

    An unclear note in the upper left part of the leaf, written probably in a language other than Gǝʿǝz or Amharic.

  2. check the viewerFol. 1v (Type: Unclear)

    An unclear note, possibly referring to an owner of the book.

    ( gez ) አምላክ፡ ለኵሉ፡ መንፈስ፡ ወለኵሉ፡ ዘሥጋ፡ ዝመጽሐፍ፡ ዘወንድም፡ የመጻፍ፡ ስሙ፡ ቤዝወኒ፡

  3. check the viewerFol. 2r (Type: Doxology)

    A doxology suggestive of a relation to Beta ʾƎsrāʾel ; most probably added later, in a different hand and bigger script, disregarding the layout.

    Text in Gǝʿǝz ይትባረክ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ አምላከ፡ እስራኤል፡

  4. check the viewerFols 87rb–88vb (Type: GuestText)

    A short history of the kings Lǝbna Dǝngǝl, Galāwdewos, Minās and Śarḍa Dǝngǝl. (CAe 6818)

    ( gez ) ንጽሕፍ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለንጉሥነ፡ ኦርቶዶክሳዊ፡ ወናግ፡ ሰገድ፡ በይሰመይ፡ (!) sic by Denis Nosnitsin ወኮነ፡ ብእሲ፡ ኄረ፡ ወመፍቀሬ፡ ጥባብ፡ እግዚአብሔራዊ፡ ወእምአመ፡ ነግሠ፡ በ፲ው፱ዐመት፡ ወመንፈቀ፡ ዓመት፡ መጽአ፡ ግራኝ፡ እምብሔረ፡ አደል፡ ወተጸብአ፡ ምስሊሁ፡ በምድረ፡ ሽብራ፡ ኍሬ፡ ወተመይጠ፡ ሀገሮ።(…)ommission by Denis Nosnitsin

Extras

  1. (Type: StampExlibris)

    Stamp of the Library on the inner side of the front board.

  2. check the viewerFol. 1r (Type: Unclear)

    An unclear note containing the title.

    ( gez ) ማማስ፡ እመ፡ ትርጓሜ፡ ኦሪት፡

  3. check the viewerFol. 1r (Type: StampExlibris)

    Stamp of the Library.

  4. check the viewerFol. 1v (Type: Unclear)

    A few words written in a small script, partly erased.

  5. check the viewerFol. 2r (Type: StampExlibris)

    Shelfmark and stamp of the Library.

  6. check the viewerFols 2r–86v (Type: Correction)

    Omissions inserted interlineally or in the margins, on some folia, also by means of tamallas-signs.

  7. check the viewerFol. 70v (Type: Unclear)

    One isolated word written, possibly pen trial or writing exercise.

  8. check the viewerFols. 87v, 88r (Type: StampExlibris)

    Stamps of the Library.

Catalogue Bibliography

  • Conti Rossini, C. 1914. Notice sur les manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection d’Abbadie, Extrait du Journal Asiatique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1914). page 104, number 28
    ZoteroOther citations
  • Chaîne, M. 1912. Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection Antoine d’Abbadie (Paris: Imprimerie nationale–Ernest Leroux, éditeur, 1912). page 18, number 28
    ZoteroOther citations
  • Abbadie, A. d’ 1859. Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits éthiopiens appartenant à Antoine d’Abbadie (Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1859). page 33-34 , number 28
    ZoteroOther citations

Secondary Bibliography

  • Butts, A. M. 2013–2014. ‘Embellished with Gold: The Ethiopic Reception of Syriac Biblical Exegesis’, Oriens Christianus, 97 (2013–2014), 137–159. page 104
    ZoteroOther citations
  • Cowley, R. W. 1984. ‘A Ge‘ez Document Reporting Controversy Concerning the Bible Commentaries of Ibn aṭ-Ṭaiyib’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 30 (1984), 5–13.
    page 6, note 10
    ZoteroOther citations

Physical Description

Form of support

Parchment Codex

Extent

88 (leaf) .Entered as 88 165 150
Outer dimensions
Height 165
Width 150

Foliation

Foliation in the upper right corner of the folia.

Quire Structure Collation

The structure of the quires should be ascertained directly on the physical object.

State of preservation

good

Condition

Half of the leaf check the viewerfols. 70, and the bottom margin of check the viewer77, are cut; the leaf check the viewer88, is mutilated. Two notes on check the viewer1v, are blotted out, and notes are erased on check the viewer54r, 75, 84r, . Some leaves are torn and repaired (check the viewer5, 36 ).

Binding

Two wooden boards.

Blind-tooled leather cover; textile inlays.

Sewing Stations

4

Endbands.

Binding decoration

Original binding

Yes

Layout

Layout note 1(check the viewerFols 2r–86vb )

Number of columns: 2

Number of lines: 28-30

A smaller number of lines (25) on check the viewerfols 87–88 .
Ruling
Pricking
  • Pricking is partly visible.

Palaeography

  • Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    18th-century script, an earlier period (17th century) cannot be excluded.

    Ink: Black, red.

    Careful, somewhat irregular; by a good scribe. The script is small, somewhat difficult to evaluate (due to the insufficient quality of the images). Small blank spaces are left on many folia, for unclear purpose.

    • Publication Statement

    authority
    Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
    pubPlace
    Hamburg
    publisher
    Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
    availability

    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.

    date
    type=expanded
    7.6.2023 at 14:46:52
    date
    type=lastModified
    15.4.2023
    idno
    type=collection
    manuscripts
    idno
    type=url
    https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BNFabb28/main
    idno
    type=URI
    https://betamasaheft.eu/BNFabb28
    idno
    type=filename
    BNFabb28.xml
    idno
    type=ID
    BNFabb28

    Encoding Description

    Encoded according to TEI P5 Guidelines.

    Encoded according to the Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines. These Guidelines detail the TEI format ruled by the Beta maṣāḥǝft Schema. The present TEI file is enriched with an Xquery transformation taking advantage of the exist-db database instance where the data is stored and of the many external resources to which this data points to.

    Definitions of prefixes used.

    Select one of the keywords listed from the record to see related data

    No keyword selected.
    This page contains RDFa. RDF+XML graph of this resource. Alternate representations available via VoID.
    Permalinks
    Hypothes.is public annotations pointing here

    Use the tag BetMas:BNFabb28 in your public hypothes.is annotations which refer to this entity.

    Suggested Citation of this record

    To cite a precise version, please, click on load permalinks and to the desired version (see documentation on permalinks), then import the metadata or copy the below, with the correct link.

    Denis Nosnitsin, Alessandro Bausi, ʻParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 28ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2023-04-15) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BNFabb28 [Accessed: 2024-05-16]

    Revisions of the data

    • Denis Nosnitsin record created and edited, on the basis of the images of the Library on 15.4.2023

    Attributions of the contents

    Alessandro Bausi, general editor

    Denis Nosnitsin, editor

    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.