Gāntā ʾAfašum, Siʿet Qǝddǝst Māryām, GMS-013
Susanne Hummel (cataloguer), Denis Nosnitsin
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
Taʾammǝra Māryām "Miracles of Mary" / Maṣḥafa ṭomār "Book of the Letter (from Heaven)" / Śǝrʿāta faws Manfasawi “Order of Spiritual Medicine”
Number of Text units: 2
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Summary
Contents
Incipit ( ):
Explicit ( ):
Text I-1 contains: - Ṣalota za-yǝbǝl ʾǝmqǝdmä yanbǝbu täʾamriha la-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝnä Māryām ... "Prayer recited before reading the Miracles of our Lady Mary ...") (check the viewer7ra ) - Excerpt from the Gospel of John (Jn. 19:25-27) (check the viewer7ra- rb). Text I-2 includes the following hymns: - ʾO-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝyä qǝddǝst dǝngǝl ba-kǝlʾe Māryām Mariham walādita ʾamlāk ... "O my Lady, Holy Two-fold Virgin Mary, Godbearing ..." (check the viewer8va- vb) - ʾO-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝyä qǝddǝst dǝngǝl Māryām Mariham ʾǝmmu la-ʾIyasus Krǝstos kahāli ... "O my Lady, Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ the Almighty ..." (check the viewer8vb-9ra l.10)(cp. ChRep ncheck the viewer373 ) - salām laki ʾo-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝyä qǝddǝst dǝngǝl Māryām ʾǝmma madḫǝn wa-ʾǝmma bǝrhān ... "Salutation to you, o my Lady, Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of the Saviour and Mother of the Light ..." (check the viewer9ra l.10-vb). Some miracles of Mary (Text I-4) are (erroneously) numbered. The 1st and 7th miracle are followed by a hymn: - ʾO-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝyä Māryām ʾǝm-beta mangǝśt wa-ʾǝm-beta kāhǝnāt ... "O my Lady Mary, from the house of Kingdom and the house of Priesthood ..." (check the viewer12va ) - (ʾO-ʾǝgzǝʾtǝyä Māryām) ḫoḫǝta mǝśrāq za-täsämäyki ... "(O my Lady Mary), Threshold of the East have you been called ..." (check the viewer20rb ). Text III (different from the work Maṣḥafa faws Manfasawi) is attested also in Mss.DZ-011,MHG-006; it is different from Maṣḥafa faws Manfasawi containede inDD-016andBGY-002.
Additions In this unit there are in total 1 .
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: Unclear note (writing exercise?).
The note is crudely written in red ink, upside down, partly illegible.
Extras
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check the viewer12vb check the viewer47vb check the viewer18rb
- Spaces for rubricated names of St Mary or the donor(s) are left unfilled: e.g., , 15rab, 21ra; occasionally marked with parallel lines: , 50ra, 55rb, 60vb. - Erasures marked with parallel lines: e.g., , 18vb, 19rb. -
(Type: findingAid)
A thread has been inserted in check the viewerfol. 20 , navigating the text.
Catalogue Bibliography
This manuscript has modern restorations.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 230 |
Width | 190 |
Depth | 50 |
Foliation
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | 2 |
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A(2; s.l.: 1, stub after 2; 2 no stub/fols. 1r-2v) | |
2 | 8 |
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I(8/fols. 3r-10v) | |
3 | 8 |
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II(8/fol. 11r-18v) | |
4 | 8 |
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III(8/fols. 19r-26v) | |
5 | 8 |
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IV(8/fols. 27r-34v) | |
6 | 8 |
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V(8/fols. 35r-42v) | |
7 | 10 |
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VI(10/fols. 43r-50v) | |
8 | 8 |
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VII(8/fols. 51r-58v) | |
9 | 10 |
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VIII(10/fols. 59r-68v) | |
10 | 3 |
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B(3; s.l.: 3, stub before 1/fols. 69r-71v). |
Collation diagrams
A(2; s.l.: 1, stub after 2; 2 no stub/fols. 1r-2v)
Quire ID:q1
I(8/fols. 3r-10v)
Quire ID:q2
II(8/fol. 11r-18v)
Quire ID:q3
III(8/fols. 19r-26v)
Quire ID:q4
IV(8/fols. 27r-34v)
Quire ID:q5
V(8/fols. 35r-42v)
Quire ID:q6
VI(10/fols. 43r-50v)
Quire ID:q7
VII(8/fols. 51r-58v)
Quire ID:q8
VIII(10/fols. 59r-68v)
Quire ID:q9
B(3; s.l.: 3, stub before 1/fols. 69r-71v).
Quire ID:q10
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(0+2/s.l. 1, stub after 2/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (8), 7 (10), 8 (8), 9 (10), 10 (3),
Formula 2: 1 (), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (8), 7 (10), 8 (8), 9 (10), 10 (3),
State of preservation
deficient
Condition
The Ms. is very worn; many leaves are stained with wax. Both boards are broken and crudely repaired. The Ms. was crudely resewn; the detached leaves of quire I were crudely sewn together. Tear amended in check the viewer62 .
Binding
Two wooden boards (both boards are broken and repaired). Two pairs of sewing stations.
Binding decoration
Binding material
wood
Original binding
No
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 20
H | 145mm |
W | 140mm |
Intercolumn | 12mm |
Margins | |
top | 24 |
bottom | 52 |
right | 34 |
left | 12 |
intercolumn | 12 |
Ms Gāntā ʾAfašum, Siʿet Qǝddǝst Māryām, GMS-013 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: 186mm, object width is: 190mm, computed height is: 221mm and object height is: 230mm.Layout note 1
Ruling
- (Subtype: pattern) Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.
- The upper line is written above the ruling.
- The bottom line is written above the ruling, in (Excerpt from check the viewer54rb)
under the bottom line. - The scribe did not use the bottom ruled line in (Excerpt from check the viewer3r-4v)
.
Pricking
- Pricking and ruling are visible.
- Primary pricks are partly visible.
- Ruling pricks are partly visible.
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Fine
Ink: Black, red
Rubrication: Name of St Mary; names of the donors; groups of lines on the incipit page of Texts I-1 and I-4; incipit of all other texts, incipit of sections of most of the texts and section numbers of Text I-4; the words salām "salutation" in Texts I-1 and ʾesäggǝd "I worship" in Text I-3; elements of the punctuation signs and of the text dividers; elements of Ethiopic numerals.
Date: 18th century (?)
18th century (?)Hand 2
Script: Ethiopic
The handwriting becomes less regular on some folios (cp. check the viewer43v , 45v).More bibliography
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Susanne Hummel, Denis Nosnitsin, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻGāntā ʾAfašum, Siʿet Qǝddǝst Māryām, GMS-013ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 10.5.2016) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/ESgms013 [Accessed: 2024-04-26+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: transformed from mycore to TEI P5 on 10.5.2016
- Denis Nosnitsin Denis Nosnitsin: last edited in Ethio-SPaRe on 11.12.2014
- Susanne Hummel Susanne Hummel: catalogued in Ethio-SPaRe on 30.9.2013
- Denis Nosnitsin: Ethio-SPaRe team photographed the manuscript on 7.12.2012
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor