Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Westbrook 8
Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford
EMIP
General description
Westbrook 8
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Early-twentieth century
Contents
Additions In this unit there are in total 1 , 1 .
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Arranged for the days of the week, Monday
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f. 3r and passim (Type: OwnershipNote)
the owner, Gabra Selassie, is mentioned throughout the book
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The scribe, ወልደ፡ ጸድቅ፡, Walda Tsedeq, is mentioned on the last folio of the main work
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Fols. 33v, 34r, 34v (Type: Record)
Record of transaction: in the year 1900, in the year of John the Evangelist, ልጅ፡ ሀብተ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡, Lej Yohannes, bought land in ወሊሶ፡, Woliso from ባላምባራስ፡ ገመዳ፡, for 50 birr. A list of witnesses and judges follows. Written a fine hand, in Amharic
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Indecipherable record mentioning መኒልክ፡ written in pencil in a poor hand
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the name Gabre Kristos (in English characters) is written in black ink pen on the leather
Extras
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a small harag at the top of the folio
Decoration In this unit there are in total 7 s.
Miniatures notes
- miniature:
Fol. 1v
Two Holy Men Potrait
- miniature:
Fol. 2r
Angel with drawn
- miniature:
Fol. 2v
Two people, facing one another
- miniature:
Fol. 11r
Virgin and Child, flanked by two guardian s
- miniature:
Fol. 16v
Angel with drawn
- miniature:
Fol. 17r
St Mary holding the hand of a man, both facing an with drawn
- miniature:
Fol. 34v
Crude drawing of a figure, in pencil
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 140mm |
Width | 93mm |
Depth | 25mm |
Binding
Binding material
parchment
wood
leather
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 1
Number of lines: 11
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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, ʻPortland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Westbrook 8ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-06-08) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP03307 [Accessed: 2024-05-21]
Revisions of the data
- Jonah Sandford Added ms dims, columns/lines, binding desc, dating info. on 8.6.2021
- Jonah Sandford Fixed dating info. on 8.6.2021
- Ashlee Benson Added facs statements on 2.4.2021
- Ashlee Benson Added items on 8.6.2020
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from List of new EMIP entrie.csv on 11.5.2020
Attributions of the contents
Ashlee Benson, editor
Jonah Sandford, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor