Gāntā ʾAfašum, Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa, BQM-002
Susanne Hummel (cataloguer),
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
Dǝrsāna Mikāʾel, Homiliary for the feasts of St Michael
Number of Text units: 2
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Summary
Contents
Incipit ( ):
Explicit ( ):
Texts I-6 and I-9 are not followed by an ʾarke-hymn as all other sections.
Additions In this unit there are in total 1 .
Extras
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(Type: findingAid)
Monthly readings are indicated by the names of the months crudely written in the upper margin, in a recent hand, in pen: ሕዳር: check the viewerfol. 3ra ታሕሣሥ: check the viewerfol. 12vb ጥር: check the viewerfol. 19vb የካቲት: check the viewerfol. 29rb መጋቢት: check the viewerfol. 34rb ሚያዝያ: check the viewerfol. 50ra ግንቦት: check the viewerfol. 57rb ሰኔ: check the viewerfol. 61vb ሐምሌ: check the viewerfol. 76vb ነሐሴ: check the viewerfol. 83rb መስከረም: check the viewerfol. 91vb ጥቅምት: check the viewerfol. 98rb .
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- Spaces for rubricated names and incipits of subsections are sometimes left unfilled: e.g., fols. 54va, 75va-82vb; sometimes crudely filled in by a secondary hand (e.g., fols. 17vb, 18rb, 28rb, 76vb, 81ra, 82vb). - Erasures are marked with thin lines: e.g., fols. 4vb, 6va, 7rb, 17vb, 21ra, 23ra, 39ra, 51ra, 53va, 61rb. - Omitted letters and words inserted interlineally: e.g., fols. 5ra, 13vb, 37vb, 42ra, 50va, 53rb, 60rb, 68va, 71rb, 79ra, 93va. - Corrections written over erasures: e.g., fols. 8rb, 14vb, 22vb, 96va. - Immediate corrections are indicated with frames encircling words written erroneously: fols. 9rb, 9vb, 28vb, 38ra, 49vb, 60ra, 64ra, 82vb; in most cases, the scribe erroneously copied a word already written a line before (dittograpy). - Tämälläs-sign, indicating the place where the omitted passage, written in the upper margin belong: check the viewerfol. 10rb . - Scribbles, writing exercises and crude drawings: fols. 1r-2v, 105vb, 106rb.
Catalogue Bibliography
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MS Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa, Ethio-SPaRe
This manuscript has modern restorations.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 245 |
Width | 180 |
Depth | 75 |
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 | 8 |
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I(8/fols. 3r-10v) | |
3 | 8 |
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II(8/fols. 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; s.l.: 3, stub after 6; 6, stub after 3/fols. 35r-42v) | |
7 | 8 |
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VI(8/fols. 43r-50v) | |
8 | 8 |
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VII(8/fols. 51r-58v) | |
9 | 8 |
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VIII(8/fols. 59r-66v) | |
10 | 8 |
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IX(8/fols. 67r-74v) | |
11 | 8 |
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X(8/fols. 75r-82v) | |
12 | 8 |
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XI(8; s.l.: 2, stub after 6; 7, stub after 1/fols. 83r-90v) | |
13 | 8 |
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XII(8/fols. 91r-98v) | |
14 | 8 |
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XIII(8; s.l.: 1, stub after 7; 8, stub before 1/fols. 99r-106v) |
Collation diagrams
A(2/fols. 1r-2v)
Quire ID:q1
I(8/fols. 3r-10v)
Quire ID:q2
II(8/fols. 11r-18v)
Quire ID:q3
III(8/fols. 19r-26v)
Quire ID:q4
IV(8/fols. 27r-34v)
Quire ID:q5
V(8; s.l.: 3, stub after 6; 6, stub after 3/fols. 35r-42v)
Quire ID:q6
VI(8/fols. 43r-50v)
Quire ID:q7
VII(8/fols. 51r-58v)
Quire ID:q8
VIII(8/fols. 59r-66v)
Quire ID:q9
IX(8/fols. 67r-74v)
Quire ID:q10
X(8/fols. 75r-82v)
Quire ID:q11
XI(8; s.l.: 2, stub after 6; 7, stub after 1/fols. 83r-90v)
Quire ID:q12
XII(8/fols. 91r-98v)
Quire ID:q13
XIII(8; s.l.: 1, stub after 7; 8, stub before 1/fols. 99r-106v)
Quire ID:q14
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(2/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (2), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (8), 7 (8), 8 (8), 9 (8), 10 (8), 11 (8), 12 (8), 13 (8), 14 (8),
Formula 2: 1 (2), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (8), 7 (8), 8 (8), 9 (8), 10 (8), 11 (8), 12 (8), 13 (8), 14 (8),
State of preservation
good
Condition
The front board is broken and repaired. The Ms. was resewn. Many folios are affected by humidity. Holes or tears amended on check the viewer20 , 23, 45.
Binding
Two wooden boards (front board repaired). Overback made of reddish-brown tooled leather. Two pairs of sewing stations.
Binding decoration
Two pairs of chains of endband stitches at the spine cover.
Binding material
wood
leather
Original binding
No
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 22
H | 177mm |
W | 143mm |
Intercolumn | 15mm |
Margins | |
top | 21 |
bottom | 47 |
right | 31 |
left | 6 |
intercolumn | 15 |
Ms Gāntā ʾAfašum, Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa, BQM-002 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: 180mm, object width is: 180mm, computed height is: 245mm and object height is: 245mm.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.
Pricking
- Pricking and ruling are visible.
- Primary pricks are visible.
- Ruling pricks are visible.
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Mediocre, somewhat irregular.
Ink: Black, red
Rubrication: Nomina sacra; name of the protagonist; names of donors; elements of the punctuation signs and of the text dividers; elements of Ethiopic numerals. Several groups of lines on the incipit page of Text I (alternating with black lines), one or two initial lines in the incipit of sections (homilies) and subsections (miracles and commemorative notices); the first word in the incipit of subsections (hymns), i.e. salām "salutation".
Date: 19th century (?)
The space for the scribe’s name is left unfilled on check the viewer12va .19th century (?)Hand 2
Script: Ethiopic
The handwriting shows sometimes a rather poor quality (see 3r-5v, 75v-77r, 86r-98r).More bibliography
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Susanne Hummel, Alessandro Bausi, Denis Nosnitsin, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻGāntā ʾAfašum, Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa, BQM-002ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 25.4.2019) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/ESbqm002 [Accessed: 2024-03-28+01:00]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: added missing extras from domlib on 25.4.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: transformed from mycore to TEI P5 on 10.5.2016
- Susanne Hummel Susanne Hummel: last edited in Ethio-SPaRe on 14.1.2015
- Susanne Hummel Susanne Hummel: catalogued in Ethio-SPaRe on 17.12.2014
- Denis Nosnitsin: Ethio-SPaRe team photographed the manuscript on 19.5.2011
Attributions of the contents
Denis Nosnitsin, contributor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor