Gulo Maḵadā, Mǝdra Rubā Sǝllase, MR-018
Magdalena Krzyzanowska (cataloguer), Denis Nosnitsin
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
Mǝʿrāf, Common of the Office / Mawāśǝʾt, Antiphonary for feasts and funeral service
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Summary
- ms_i1 (),
Contents
Incipit ( ):
Explicit ( ):
Additions In this unit there are in total .
Extras
- - An ownership note (?): . - Passages omitted in the main text are written in the margins, by hand b: fols. 1ra, 4vb, 7ra, 23ra, 27rb, 27vb, 28ra, 35ra. - Tämälläs-signs in the shape of a cross (+) indicate the place where the omissions, written in the lower margin, belong: fols. 22vb l.10, 29vb l.17. - A note or a passage omitted in the main text is written, by hand b, in the upper part of . - Writing exercises: fols. 1rv, 7v, 8r, 14r, 15r, 20vb.
Catalogue Bibliography
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MS Mǝdra Rubā Sǝllase, Ethio-SPaRe
This manuscript has modern restorations.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 160 |
Width | 140 |
Depth | 35 |
Foliation
Ca. 10 fols. between check the viewer35 and 37 are not foliated due to their poor condition.
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 |
|
I(5; s.l.: 1, no stub/fols. 1r-5v) | |
2 | 6 |
|
II(6/fols. 6r-11v) | |
3 | 9 |
|
III(9; s.l.: 1, no stub/fols. 12r-20v) | |
4 | 8 |
|
IV(8/fols. 21r-28v) | |
5 | 8 |
|
V(8/fols. 29r-36v) | |
6 | 1 |
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VI(1; s.l.: 1, no stub/fol. 37). The structure cannot be determined for the end of the Ms. |
Collation diagrams
I(5; s.l.: 1, no stub/fols. 1r-5v)
Quire ID:q1
II(6/fols. 6r-11v)
Quire ID:q2
III(9; s.l.: 1, no stub/fols. 12r-20v)
Quire ID:q3
IV(8/fols. 21r-28v)
Quire ID:q4
V(8/fols. 29r-36v)
Quire ID:q5
VI(1; s.l.: 1, no stub/fol. 37). The structure cannot be determined for the end of the Ms.
Quire ID:q6
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(4+1/s.l. 1, no stub/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (), 2 (6), 3 (), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (),
Formula 2: 1 (), 2 (6), 3 (), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (),
State of preservation
deficient
Condition
Many fols. are missing. Ca. 10 fols. between check the viewer35 and 37 are heavily damaged by rodents. They are not foliated. ff. containing Text II are misplaced. check the viewer37 is loose. The leather back board is missing. All fols. are affected with water at the edges.
Binding
Two leather boards (the back board is missing). Two pairs of sewing stations.
Binding decoration
Binding material
leather
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 18
H | 110mm |
W | 114mm |
Intercolumn | 8mm |
Margins | |
top | 15 |
bottom | 30 |
right | 19 |
left | 5 |
intercolumn | 8 |
Ms Gulo Maḵadā, Mǝdra Rubā Sǝllase, MR-018 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: 138mm, object width is: 140mm, computed height is: 155mm and object height is: 160mm.Layout note 1
Ruling
- (Subtype: pattern) Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/B.
- 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.
- Structural pricks are partly visible (in the centrefolds of the quires).
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Hand a: fine and careful; hand b: fine; hand c: mediocre and careless.
Ink: Black, red
Rubrication: Nomina sacra; elements of the punctuation signs; Ethiopic numerals or their elements. Text I Two initial lines alternating with a black line in the incipit page; two initial lines alternating with a black line of the incipit of Texts I-3 and I-4; names of supplications, antiphons and chants (e.g., mastabqʷǝʿ, mǝlṭān, ʾǝsma la-ʿālam, ʾaryām); initial words of supplications, antiphons and other chants, and their sections (e.g., säbbǝḥǝwwo, kʷǝllomu, gǝnäyu, nǝsebbǝḥo, ʾantä, sǝmaʿnni); names of feasts and other occasions; musical notation: intratextual signs (e.g., ʾaryām qadāmi zema), interlinear signs(e.g., fols.1ra, ) and elements of marginal signs; directives for the ministers (e.g., yǝbäl). Text II Names of antiphons (mawāśǝʾt); names of sections of antiphons (mǝlṭān and mazmur); name of a Dǝggʷā antiphon (ʾǝsma la-ʿālam); initial word of a Dǝggʷā antiphon (yǝbarǝkǝwwo); intratextual musical notation sign (ʾaryām qadāmi zema); word ṣalot “prayer”; chains of red and black dots separating groups of antiphons belonging to different feasts.
Date: First half of the 19th century (?)
First half of the 19th century (?)Abbreviations
Hand 2
Script: Ethiopic
Hand a: check the viewer1r- v l.6, rounded, very regular scriptHand 3
Script: Ethiopic
Hand b: check the viewer2ra-5vb , 37rv, slender script with slightly left sloping lettersHand 4
Script: Ethiopic
Hand c: check the viewer1va l.6-1vb, 6ra-36vb, rubrication and musical notation signs throughout the Ms.; irregular, angular letters; hearlines.More bibliography
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Magdalena Krzyzanowska, Denis Nosnitsin, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻGulo Maḵadā, Mǝdra Rubā Sǝllase, MR-018ʼ, 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/ESmr018 [Accessed: 2024-03-29+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
- Denis Nosnitsin Denis Nosnitsin: last edited in Ethio-SPaRe on 1.9.2014
- Magdalena Krzyzanowska Magdalena Krzyzanowska: catalogued in Ethio-SPaRe on 9.4.2013
- Denis Nosnitsin: Ethio-SPaRe team photographed the manuscript on 11.5.2010
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor