Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Ḥarennat Gabazayti Qǝddǝst Māryām, MHG-006
Massimo Villa (cataloguer), Denis Nosnitsin
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
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
Additions In this unit there are in total .
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: Ownership note.
check the viewer20r : ዝመጽሐፍ፡ የአባ፡ <…>ታ፡ ጽድቅ፡ ነው. The note is written in the upper margin of the fol.; it is partly written in Amharic and mentions ʾabbā <…>ta Ṣǝdǝq as the owner of the manuscript. -
check the viewerFol. 00 check the viewer4ra-
check the viewer20r : Hymn to the Virgin Mary, incomplete.
check the viewer20r : ኵሎሙ፡ ሠራዊተ፡ መላእክት፡ ይሴብሑኪ፡ ዘእምቅድመ፡ አለም፡ ህልዎትኪ፡ … The hymn is identical to EMML 1593 (s. EMML V, 78) and to MHG-001 ( vb).
Extras
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check the viewer10ra check the viewer6vb check the viewer7va check the viewer10v check the viewer1r-2v check the viewer1r check the viewer2v
- Erasures: , 11rb, 14va, 15va, 19ra. - Corrections written over erased words and passages, e.g.: , 19va. - Omitted letters written interlineally: , 12va, 13ra, 14va. - Notes for the most part washed out and illegible: , 11r. - Writing exercises, minor notes, doodles in black or red ink, in a blue pen or in pencil: , 4r-5r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 10v-11v, 20r-v. - Pen trial: , 1v. - Crude doodles of human heads in black or red ink: , 12v, 15r, 16r.
Catalogue Bibliography
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MS Ḥarennat Gabazayti Qǝddǝst Māryām, Ethio-SPaRe
This manuscript has modern restorations.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 160 |
Width | 140 |
Depth | 15 |
Foliation
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | 2 |
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A(2/fols. 1r-2v) | |
2 | 10 |
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I(10/fols. 3r-12v) | |
3 | 2 |
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II(2/fols. 13r-14v) | |
4 | 6 |
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III(6/fols. 15r-20v). |
Collation diagrams
A(2/fols. 1r-2v)
Quire ID:q1
I(10/fols. 3r-12v)
Quire ID:q2
II(2/fols. 13r-14v)
Quire ID:q3
III(6/fols. 15r-20v).
Quire ID:q4
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(2/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (2), 2 (10), 3 (2), 4 (6),
Formula 2: 1 (2), 2 (10), 3 (2), 4 (6),
State of preservation
deficient
Condition
The Ms. has been resewn with a thread of vegetal origin and the sewing has been crudely repaired with recent synthetic threads. Both boards and the fols. are of irregular shape. check the viewer10 is made out of two pieces of parchment. Most of the fols. are affected by humidity; passages of the text on check the viewer8rb , 10va are hardly legible due to water damage. Cuts carefully amended on fols. 5, 10. A hole on check the viewer10 .
Binding
Two leather boards. Three sewing stations.
Binding decoration
Binding material
leather
Original binding
No
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 15
H | 95mm |
W | 110mm |
Intercolumn | 12mm |
Margins | |
top | 15 |
bottom | 48 |
right | 12 |
left | 15 |
intercolumn | 12 |
Ms Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Ḥarennat Gabazayti Qǝddǝst Māryām, MHG-006 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: 137mm, object width is: 140mm, computed height is: 158mm and object height is: 160mm.Ruling
- 14-15 lines on (Excerpt from check the viewer11v-12r)
; 20 lines on (Excerpt from check the viewer5va)
, 10rb - (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.
- The ruling is very inconsistent (fols. 3, 4, 11v, 18).
- The scribe very often disregarded the ruling (e.g.
(Excerpt from check the viewer11r)
, 13r).
Pricking
- Pricking and ruling are visible.
- Primary pricks are partly visible.
- Ruling pricks are visible.
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Poor and crude, conspicuously angular.
Ink: Black and red (deep reddish brown).
Rubrication: Nomina sacra; a few lines on the incipit page of Texts I, II, and on fol. 11ra; names of the owners (fols. 10va, 16va); elements of the punctuation signs; elements of Ethiopic numerals.
Date: 18th century.
The scribe seems to be the same as the one of MHG-005.18th century.Hand 2
Script: Ethiopic
Distinctive features:Hand 3
Script: Ethiopic
- the loops of the 5th vowel marker are usually open;Hand 4
Script: Ethiopic
- the loop of ል is always open.Hand 5
Script: Ethiopic
- ዕ , ኢ, ኀ have a long horizontal stroke on the top;Hand 6
Script: Ethiopic
- the vowel marker of እ is parallel to the baseline of the script;Hand 7
Script: Ethiopic
- some letters have clumsy, unproportionate shape: s. ሎ with large vowel marker (check the viewer16vb l. 7); twisted ራ (check the viewer6ra l. 7).More bibliography
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Massimo Villa, Denis Nosnitsin, Alessandro Bausi, Sophia Dege-Müller, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻBǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Ḥarennat Gabazayti Qǝddǝst Māryām, MHG-006ʼ, 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/ESmhg006 [Accessed: 2024-03-28+01:00]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: transformed from mycore to TEI P5 on 10.5.2016
- Sophia Dege-Müller Sophia Dege-Müller: last edited in Ethio-SPaRe on 22.9.2014
- Massimo Villa Massimo Villa: catalogued in Ethio-SPaRe on 6.11.2013
- Denis Nosnitsin: Ethio-SPaRe team photographed the manuscript on 20.5.2011
Attributions of the contents
Sophia Dege-Müller, contributor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor