Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Belcher Walatta Petros Codex 4
Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford
EMIP
Collection: EMIP
Other identifiers: EMIP 2141, Belcher & Selamawit 04
General description
Belcher Walatta Petros Codex 4
Number of Text units: 19
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
According to Wendy Belcher, this manuscript is the autograph of the Gadla Walatta Ṗeṭros, written in 1672 . Should this not be the case, it was written before 1681 . Digitised in Qwäraḉa↗ in 2011.
Summary
- ms_i1
(Fols 2r–120r
- ms_i1.1
(Fols 2r–6r
- ms_i1.2
(Fols 7v–119r
- ms_i1.2.1
(Fols 79v–79r
- ms_i1.2.2
(Fols 85r and following
- ms_i1.2.3
(Fols 6r and following
- ms_i1.2.4
(Fols 15r and following
- ms_i1.2.5
(Fols 23r and following
- ms_i1.2.6
(Fols 30v and following
- ms_i1.2.7
(Fols 38v and following
- ms_i1.2.8
(Fols 45v and following
- ms_i1.2.9
(Fols 54r and following
- ms_i1.2.10
(Fols 61r and following
- ms_i1.2.11
(Fols 67v and following
- ms_i1.2.12
(Fols 79v and following
- ms_i1.2.13
(Fols 100r and following
- ms_i1.2.14
(Fols 110v and following
- ms_i1.3
(Fols 119v–120r
- ms_i1.2.1
(Fols 79v–79r
- ms_i1.1
(Fols 2r–6r
- ms_i2
(Fols 121r–139r
Contents
Fols 2r–120r
Language of text:
Additions In this unit there are in total 2 , 1 .
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The Chronology of Walatta Petros and the subsequent community, written in a different hand
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(written upside down): Additional miracle of Walatta Petros, written in a different hand
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Record: land grant in the reign of Adse Takla Giyorgis (I, whose dates are 1779-1784, 1788-1789, 1794-1795, 1795-1796, 1798-1799, 1800; or II whose dates are 1869‒1871) written in a bold, different hand
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Record of land inheritance
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mentions the Abess of the community, አመተ፡ ድንግል፡, Amata Dengel, and the Abott, ዘሐዋርያት፡ አመተ፡ ድንግል፡ ዘሐዋርያት፡ሰላም፡ ለኪ፡ ወለተ ጴጥሮስ፡ ገነት፡
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Fol. 121r (Type: OwnershipNote)
an owner or patron is mentioned, አክሮስያ
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Record: land transaction, mentioning the Abess and the women leaders of the community
Extras
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Digitized by Wendy Laura Belcher with Selamawit Mecca in January 2011 with a Canon Powershot outdoors at the Qʷäräta Wälättä P̣eṭros Monastery on the east shore of Lake Ṭana
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mostly blank
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IV 721
Decoration In this unit there are in total 2 .
Miniatures notes
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Watermark
No
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | mm |
Width | mm |
Depth | mm |
Binding
Binding material
parchment
wood
leather
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 18
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Edition Statement
The initial version of this file was created from data kindly provided by the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project directed by Steve Delamarter.
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Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Dorothea Reule, ʻPortland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Belcher Walatta Petros Codex 4ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-05-18) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP02141 [Accessed: 2024-05-17]
Revisions of the data
- Jonah Sandford Added columns/lines, binding desc. on 18.5.2021
- Ashlee Benson Changed location of d1 on 2.4.2021
- Ashlee Benson Added items on 1.6.2020
- Dorothea Reule Added shelfmarks, dating, location at digitising provided by Wendy Belcher on 22.5.2020
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from EMIP Collection Metadata.xsls on 18.1.2018
Attributions of the contents
Ashlee Benson, editor
Jonah Sandford, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Dorothea Reule, contributor