Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 047
Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford, Ralph Lee
Tweed Collection, EMIP
General description
Tweed Codex 047
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Late-eighteenth century
Contents
Fols 1r–178v
Language of text:
Psalm 118 does not contain the spiritual meanings of the Hebrew letters, but space was left for them to be writtenAdditions In this unit there are in total 1 .
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Fols. 163v, 164r, 164v, 178v, 179r, 179v, 180r (Type: GuestText)
Ṣalota kidān (CAe 2260) , with faded text in the last few folios
Extras
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scrawls and pentrials
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blank
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note on quire reinforcement strip, illegible. Note in Amharic
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the mid-point of the Psalms is marked with a small haräg in the right margin
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illegible note
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illegible note
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Note by a student, in a crude hand
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Identified in the insurance hand list as Psalter 31
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etc., words of text are written interlinearly
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etc., lines of text are written interlinearly
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f. 161r, line 7 f. 161v, line 6 f. 162r, line 6
etc., lines of text are written in the upper margin with a symbol (┬) marking the location where the text is to be inserted
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etc., text has been removed
Decoration In this unit there are in total 1 .
Miniatures notes
- miniature: Decorative designs: folss. 1r, 27v, 47v, 93v, 139v, 154v, 178v, (haräg); 1r, 39r, 54r, 64v, 77v, 121v, (line of alternating red and black dots); 8v, 68v, 100v, 104v, 107v (line of red dots)
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Watermark
No
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 178mm |
Width | 180mm |
Depth | 74mm |
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | 1 | 12 |
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2 | 2 | 11 |
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3 | 3 | 8 |
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Quire 3 |
4 | 4 | 11 |
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5 | 5 | 10 |
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Quire 5 |
6 | 6 | 10 |
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Quire 6 |
7 | 7 | 10 |
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Quire 7 |
8 | 8 | 10 |
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Quire 8 |
9 | 9 | 10 |
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Quire 9 |
10 | 10 | 10 |
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Quire 10 |
11 | 11 | 10 |
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Quire 11 |
12 | 12 | 9 |
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13 | 13 | 8 |
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Quire 13 |
14 | 14 | 10 |
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Quire 14 |
15 | 15 | 8 |
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Quire 15 |
16 | 16 | 8 |
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Quire 16 |
17 | 17 | 10 |
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Quire 17 |
18 | 18 | 8 |
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Quire 18 |
19 | 19 | 8 |
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Quire 19 |
Collation diagrams
Quire 1: 4, stub after 9 9, stub after 4
Quire ID:q1, number:1
Notes: 1)
Quire 2: 11 added
Quire ID:q2, number:2
Notes: 1)
Quire 3
Quire ID:q3, number:3
Quire 4: 1 added
Quire ID:q4, number:4
Notes: 1)
Quire 5
Quire ID:q5, number:5
Quire 6
Quire ID:q6, number:6
Quire 7
Quire ID:q7, number:7
Quire 8
Quire ID:q8, number:8
Quire 9
Quire ID:q9, number:9
Quire 10
Quire ID:q10, number:10
Quire 11
Quire ID:q11, number:11
Quire 12: 4, stub after 6
Quire ID:q12, number:12
Notes: 1)
Quire 13
Quire ID:q13, number:13
Quire 14
Quire ID:q14, number:14
Quire 15
Quire ID:q15, number:15
Quire 16
Quire ID:q16, number:16
Quire 17
Quire ID:q17, number:17
Quire 18
Quire ID:q18, number:18
Quire 19
Quire ID:q19, number:19
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(10+2/s.l. 4, stub after 9; s.l. 9, stub after 4/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (12), 2 (11, +11), 3 (8), 4 (, +1), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (9), 13 (8), 14 (10), 15 (8), 16 (8), 17 (10), 18 (8), 19 (8),
Formula 2: 1 (12), 2 (11, leaf added after fol. 22), 3 (8), 4 (, first leaf is added), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (9), 13 (8), 14 (10), 15 (8), 16 (8), 17 (10), 18 (8), 19 (8),
Binding
Parchment, four Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards of the traditional wood.
Binding material
parchment
wood
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
H | |
W | |
Margins | |
top | 23mm |
bottom | 45mm |
right | 27mm |
left | 15mm |
Ms Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 047 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: NaNmm, object width is: 180mm, computed height is: NaNmm and object height is: 178mm.Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Rubrication: ኢግዚአብሔር፡ ማርያም፡
The word God is not rubricated in the first three works; the word Mary is rubricated in the final two works There is no columetric layout of textCheck for additional bibliography
Publication Statement
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Edition Statement
The initial version of this file was created from data kindly provided by the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project directed by Steve Delamarter.
Dedicated to Cain Hope Felder
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Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford, Ralph Lee, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻWashington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 047ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2020-11-18) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP01996 [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Ashlee Benson Ashlee Benson: Minor edits on 18.11.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Moved comment on spiritual meanings in Ps118 to ms items on 5.8.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: corrected ǝ character on 17.4.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Added missing image links on 20.2.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Added image links on 23.12.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: updated msIdentifier for Tweed collection. on 13.11.2019
- Jonah Sandford Jonah Sandford: Added quire maps, margin dim, columns/lines, binding desc, dating info. on 10.11.2019
- Ashlee Benson Ashlee Benson: Added items on 25.10.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: CreatedXML record from EMIP Collection Metadata.xsls on 18.1.2018
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor