ʾAṣqu
Solomon Gebreyes
Birth
1770
Period of Activity
He was a learned scholar and judge of Gondar↗ in the first half of the 19th century. He was in contact with many European travellers and scholars who visited Gondar↗ in his time. He copied the royal chronicles which were commissioned by Rüppell↗ in 1833 and catalogued by Goldschmidt↗ in 1897.
Death
1840s
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Names
- birth: አጽቁ፡ gez
- birth: አጥቁ፡ gez
- Atkum de
- liq role: title
Dates
Birth: 1770
Period of activity: 1820–1850
Occupation
scribe
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Rüppell, E. 1838. Reise in Abyssinien, I (Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, und in Commission bei Siegmund Schmerber, 1838).
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Rüppell, E. 1840. Reise in Abyssinien, II (Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, und in Commission bei Siegmund Schmerber, 1840).
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Goldschmidt, L. 1897. Die Abessinischen Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek zu Frankfurt am Main (Rüppell’sche Sammlung) nebst Anhängen und Auszügen (Berlin: S. Calvary & Co., 1897).
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Pankhurst, R. 2003. ‘Aṭqu’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 382b–383a.
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- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 160 The description of the manuscript also contains the following dates 1859 in a bibl element, 1859 in a bibl element, 1859 in a bibl element, 1902 in a acquisition element.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻʾAṣquʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-11-10) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2183Asqu [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added name variants on 10.11.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: transcription, bibliography and addition to the content on 25.8.2016
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 8.8.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Dorothea Reule, contributor