Philadelphia, Princeton University Library, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 53
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General description
Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 53: The Five Pillars of Mystery (Amməstu A'əmadä Məśtir)
Number of Text units: 7
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
1800s
Summary
Illustration: Fol. 2r: Miniature of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child (with angels on the left and right).
Illustration: Fol. 24v: Miniature of Saint George slaying the Dragon.
Illustration: Fol. 50v: Miniature of the Virgin Mary: Coronation, by the Trinity.
Illustration: Fol. 66v: Miniature of the Virgin Mary and Joseph?
Illustration: Fol. 82v: Miniature of the monastic leader with his disciple.
All miniatures are painted over the existing text and do not relate to the text. They seem to have been painted by the twentieth-century "speckled garment artist" described in Steve Delamarter and Melaku Terefe, Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project. Portland, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009.
The Five Pillars of Mystery is in Amharic, but with many quotes from the patristic literature in Ge'ez.
Fol. 90v: A note in Amharic in another, later hand that starts: "My Father Gebre Hiwot Sadequ, please prepare a parchment for me. I also will do whatever you ask."
Fol. 1r: The decorative border has been highlighted with a ballpoint pen.
Fols. 9r, 17r, 25r, 33r, 41r, 51r, 59r, 67r, 75r, 83r: Quires are marked with Ethiopic numerals: quire 1, 2, etc.
No owner listed.
No scribe listed.
Gift of Bruce Willsie, Princeton Class of 1986.
In another, later hand.
References: Published works on The Five Pillars of Mystery includes a translation into Amharic by Addis Ababa: Tasfa Press, 1952 EC. The Five Pillars of Mystery have also been cataloged in EMIP 51; EMML 1648, 1815; Strelcyn 50.1 See Encylopedia Aethiopica, vol. 1, p. 248.
- ms_i1 (check the viewerLocated on folio 1r-5r. ), Introduction
- ms_i2 (check the viewerLocated on folio 5r-21v. ), The Mystery of the Trinity
- ms_i3 (check the viewerLocated on folio 21v-47r. ), The Mystery of the Incarnation
- ms_i4 (check the viewerLocated on folio 47r-64v. ), The Mystery of Baptism
- ms_i5 (check the viewerLocated on folio 64v-77v. ), The Mystery of the Eucharist
- ms_i6 (check the viewerLocated on folio 77v-89v. ), The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead
- ms_i7 (check the viewerLocated on folio 90v. ), A Magical Prayer for Long Life
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻPhiladelphia, Princeton University Library, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 53ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2022-05-05) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/PULet053 [Accessed: 2024-06-03]
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- Eugenia Sokolinski renamed on 5.5.2022
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0776/cPRet01180.xml . See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1181. on 17.11.2016
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor