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Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Collections, CUL Add. 1570

This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography

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https://betamasaheft.eu/CamAdd1570
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Other identifiers: Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project EMIP03452

GeneralDescriptionPhysical DescriptionCatalogueAuthors

General description

Old Testament Books

Number of Text units: 41

Number of Codicological units: 1

For a table of all relations from and to this record, please go to the Relations view. In the Relations boxes on the right of this page, you can also find all available relations grouped by name.

Origin

Late 16th cent. during the 27th year of Sarsa Dengel, Negus of Ethiopia, -1597ሠርፀ ድንግልcheck the viewer f. 146 ,

Original Location: Ethiopia

. The second colophon states that the work was translated by Jacob the Israelite from Hebrew to Ge‘ez, and was written by the scribe Waldä Giyorgis for Queen Maryam Sǝna the wife of Sarsa Dengel, Negus of Ethiopia, -1597 .

Provenance

According to a note on the inside front cover, the manuscript was acquired during the Napier expedition: “Abyssinian Bible. Taken from King Theodore at the storming of Magdala by the officers of H.M. Madras engineers and presented by them to Captain Sotham(?) of H.M.H. transport “Middlesex” June 1868”. Donated to Cambridge University by Armbruster, C. H. (Carl Hubert), 1874-1957 on 19 August 1957

Summary

Though not a pandect, this magisterial codex, likely produced in a royal scriptorium by at least ten scribes (Feśśeḥa Ṣeyon, Yoḥannes, Takla Hāymānot, Zamikā’ēl, Zakrestos, Kefla Gabre’ēl, Habta Mikā’ēl, Takla Māryām, Takla Abrehām, Fequra Iyasus), contains the vast majority of books belonging to the Ethiopian Old Testament canon. The codex is fully intact except for the loss of one sheet, the innermost bifolium of its twenty-sixth quire, resulting in the absence of nearly all of Micah and Joel. The concluding leaves of the codex contain records in Amharic of various property sales, chiefly from the late-eighteenth century, transacted between members of the Ethiopian nobility. The date of the work is written in the first colon at the end of 2 Kings: the 27th year of Särs’ä Dǝngǝl's reign.
  1. ms_i1 (check the viewerff. 1r-7r ), Extracts from Maṣḥafa hēnokEnoch
  2. ms_i2 (check the viewerff. 7r-87v ), Pentateuch
    1. ms_i2a (check the viewerf. 17-34 ), Genesis
    2. ms_i2b (check the viewerff. 35-48 ), Exodus
    3. ms_i2c (check the viewerff. 49-59 ), Leviticus
    4. ms_i2d (check the viewerff. 60-73 ), Numbers
    5. ms_i2e (check the viewerff. 74-87 ), Deuteronomy
  3. ms_i3 (check the viewerff. 88r-96v ), Joshua
  4. ms_i4 (check the viewerff. 97r-104v ), Judges
  5. ms_i5 (check the viewerff. 105 ), Ruth
  6. ms_i6 (check the viewerff. 106r-116v ), 1 Samuel
    1. ms_i7 (check the viewer117r-125v ), 2 Samuel
  7. ms_i8 (check the viewerff. 126r-135v ), 1 Kings
    1. ms_i9 (check the viewerff. 136r-145v ), 2 Kings
    2. ms_i9a (check the viewerff. 146 ), A list of Judah’s Kings, Israel’s Kings, and Prophets
  8. ms_i10 (check the viewerff. 147r-163v ), The Books of Solomon
    1. ms_i10a (check the viewerff. 147r-153v ), Proverbs
    2. ms_i10b (check the viewerff. 154r-156r ), Ecclesiastes
    3. ms_i10c (check the viewerff. 156v-163r ), Wisdom of Solomon
  9. ms_i11 (check the viewerff. 163r-173v ), Job
  10. ms_i12 (check the viewerff. 174r-188r ), Isaiah
  11. ms_i13 (check the viewerff. 188v-199v ), The 12 Minor Prophets
    1. ms_i13a (check the viewerff. 188v-190v ), Hosea
    2. ms_i13b (check the viewerff. 191r-192r ), Amos
    3. ms_i13c (check the viewerf. 192v ), Micah
    4. ms_i13d (check the viewerf. 193r ), Joel
    5. ms_i13e (check the viewerf. 193r ), Obadiah
    6. ms_i13f (check the viewerf. 193r ), Jonah
    7. ms_i13g (check the viewerf. 193v ), Nahum
    8. ms_i13h (check the viewerf. 194 ), Habakkuk
    9. ms_i13i (check the viewerf. 195r ), Zephaniah
    10. ms_i13j (check the viewerff. 195v ), Haggai
    11. ms_i13k (check the viewerff. 196r-198r ), Zechariah
    12. ms_i13l (check the viewerff. 198v-200r ), Malachi
  12. ms_i14 (check the viewerff. 200r-227v ), Jeremiah
    1. ms_i14a (check the viewerf. 225 ), Baruch
    2. ms_i14b (check the viewerff. 226r-227r ), Lamentations
    3. ms_i14c (check the viewerf. 227v ), Epistle of Jeremiah
  13. ms_i15 (check the viewerff. 228v-236r ), The Apocalypse of Ezra
  14. ms_i16 (check the viewerff. 236v-243v ), Daniel
  15. ms_i17 (check the viewerff. 244r-267v ), Ezekiel

Contents

check the viewerff. 1r-7r Extracts from Maṣḥafa hēnok (CAe 1340) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 1

Enoch (CAe 1340) See in FIHRIST.

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Language of text:

check the viewerff. 7r-87v Pentateuch (CAe 2477) See in FIHRIST.

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check the viewerf. 17-34 Genesis (CAe 1546) See in FIHRIST.

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check the viewerff. 35-48 Exodus (CAe 1367) See in FIHRIST.

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check the viewerff. 49-59 Leviticus (CAe 1793) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 2c

    THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD () has no @corresp or t:ptr/@target. Please check the schema error report to fix it. skos:broadMatch Leviticus
check the viewerff. 60-73 Numbers (CAe 2075) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 2d

check the viewerff. 74-87 Deuteronomy (CAe 2637) See in FIHRIST.

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check the viewerff. 88r-96v Joshua (CAe 1696) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 3

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check the viewerff. 97r-104v Judges (CAe 1700) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 4

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check the viewerff. 105 Ruth (CAe 2229) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 5

    THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD () has no @corresp or t:ptr/@target. Please check the schema error report to fix it. skos:broadMatch Book of Ruth

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check the viewerff. 106r-116v 1 Samuel (CAe 1719) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 6

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check the viewer117r-125v 2 Samuel (CAe 1719) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 7

check the viewerff. 126r-135v 1 Kings (CAe 1719) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 8

Language of text:

check the viewerff. 136r-145v 2 Kings (CAe 1719) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 9

check the viewerff. 147r-163v The Books of Solomon (CAe 5832) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 10

Language of text:

check the viewerff. 147r-153v Proverbs (CAe 2195) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 10a

    THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD () has no @corresp or t:ptr/@target. Please check the schema error report to fix it. skos:broadMatch Proverbs
check the viewerff. 154r-156r Ecclesiastes (CAe 1320) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 10b

    THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD () has no @corresp or t:ptr/@target. Please check the schema error report to fix it. skos:broadMatch Ecclesiastes
check the viewerff. 156v-163r Wisdom of Solomon (CAe 2516) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 10c

check the viewerff. 163r-173v Job (CAe 1688) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 11

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Language of text:

check the viewerff. 174r-188r Isaiah (CAe 1672) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 12

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check the viewerff. 188v-199v The 12 Minor Prophets (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13

Language of text:

check the viewerff. 188v-190v Hosea (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13a

check the viewerff. 191r-192r Amos (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13b

check the viewerf. 192v Micah (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13c

Only the first 5 verses remain. The rest and hearly the whole of Joel being contained on two leaves, now missing.
check the viewerf. 193r Joel (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13d

Last verses and colophon only.
check the viewerf. 193r Obadiah (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13e

check the viewerf. 193r Jonah (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13f

check the viewerf. 193v Nahum (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13g

check the viewerf. 194 Habakkuk (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13h

check the viewerf. 195r Zephaniah (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13i

check the viewerff. 195v Haggai (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13j

check the viewerff. 196r-198r Zechariah (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13k

check the viewerff. 198v-200r Malachi (CAe 1315) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 13l

check the viewerff. 200r-227v Jeremiah (CAe 1685) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 14

Language of text:

The four works associated with Jeremiah are treated as one.
check the viewerf. 225 Baruch (CAe 1202) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 14a

check the viewerff. 226r-227r Lamentations (CAe 1753) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 14b

    THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD () has no @corresp or t:ptr/@target. Please check the schema error report to fix it. skos:broadMatch Lamentations
check the viewerf. 227v Epistle of Jeremiah (CAe 1686) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 14c

check the viewerff. 228v-236r The Apocalypse of Ezra (CAe 1376) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 15

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4 Esdras 3-14
check the viewerff. 236v-243v Daniel (CAe 3529) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 16

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check the viewerff. 244r-267v Ezekiel (CAe 1373) See in FIHRIST.

Relations Bibliography , item 17

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Additions In this unit there are in total .

  1. check the viewer ff. 260-267

    Marginalia

    The work contains some Amharic marginalia; the concluding leaves contain sales contracts and property listings, written in Amharic, of members of Ethiopian nobility, dated roughly to .

  2. check the viewer173v

    Marginalia

    After the colophon on f. some quotations from a comentator have been added.

Catalogue Bibliography

  • Ullendorff, E. and S. Wright 1961. Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961).
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Physical Description

Form of support

Codex

Extent

267 ff. 42 35
Leaf dimensions
Height 42cm
Width 35cm

Binding

Thick wooden boards. Red bling tooled leather.

Layout

Layout note 1(check the viewer1 check the viewer4 check the viewer56 )

Number of columns: 3

Number of lines: 40

Palaeography

  • Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    Written in black ink.

    • Keywords

    Publication Statement

    authority
    Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
    pubPlace
    Hamburg
    publisher
    Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
    availability
    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
    date
    type=expanded
    6.2.2024 at 13:17:17
    date
    type=lastModified
    28.9.2022
    idno
    type=collection
    manuscripts
    idno
    type=url
    https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/CamAdd1570/main
    idno
    type=URI
    https://betamasaheft.eu/CamAdd1570
    idno
    type=filename
    CamAdd1570.xml
    idno
    type=ID
    CamAdd1570

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    Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻCambridge, Cambridge University Library Collections, CUL Add. 1570ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 28.9.2022) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/CamAdd1570 [Accessed: 2024-05-06+02:00]

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    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo Transformed file from Fihrist, Add_1570. Original file for transformation viewable at https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_16744 downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/fihristorg/fihrist-mss/blob/master/collections/cambridge%20university/Add_1570.xml on 28.10.2021

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