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Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Aeth. 20

Massimo Villa

This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the Catalogue Bibliography

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Collection: Aethiopici

Other identifiers: 303

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General description

Psalter

Number of Text units: 1

Number of Codicological units: 1

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Origin

1400-1487

Provenance

Origin and provenance of the manuscript are unknown. speculates that it might have been brought from Ethiopia↗ to Jerusalem↗ by Giovanni Battista Brocchi da Imola after 1484–1485 .

Acquisition

The manuscript was already part of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana’s collection by 1487, at which date Giovanni Battista Brocchi da Imola (this person may or may not be identical with the person who might have brought the manuscript from Ethiopia) borrowed it for a duration of five years. According to , this makes it the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana’s longest-held Ethiopic manuscript.

Summary

Contents

check the viewerFols 3r and following Psalter (CAe 2000) ( The text ends abruptly at Psalms of David, Psalmus 110, 7 with the words

( gez ) ጽድቅ፡ ወርትዕ፨

. The following psalms are not numbered: 1, 30, 53, 56, 67, 79, 81, 101, 103. Psalms 47, 58, and 76 are erroneously numbered 37, 59, and 70 respectively. Stichometry is indicated for psalms 11, 12, 13, 54, 63, 81, 82, 86, 90-93, 95-99, 101-106, 108-110. The word ቃሉ፡ is frequently misspelled ቀሉ፡. ) (This manuscript was the one on which Johannes Potken based his edition of the Ethiopic Psalter, the first Ethiopian printed book. See and .)

Additions In this unit there are in total 2 .

  1. check the viewerFol. 3r (Type: StampExlibris)

    Stamp

    (Seal of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.)

  2. check the viewerFol. 124v (Type: StampExlibris)

    Stamp

    (Seal of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.)

Extras

  1. The shelfmark ( la ) Vat. | 20 | aethiop. is written on the cover, together with the coat of arms of pope Pius IX .

  2. check the viewerFol. 1r

    ( ) 303, i.e. the shelfmark the manuscript was given at the time of pope Julius II . The current shelfmark ( la ) 20, 20. aethiop. is also written on the same leaf.

  3. check the viewerFols. 1v, 2v, 124r

    Scribbles

  4. check the viewerFol. 2r

    Title of the book: ( la ) Psalteriu"m" caldaica lingua seu Ethiopica.

  5. check the viewerFol. 3r

    The title of the book ( la ) Psalmi David is written in the upper margin.

  6. check the viewerFols. 6, 58, 59, 114, 118

    Lines are inserted interlineally in small script in a secondary hand.

  7. check the viewerFol. 8r

    ( la ) Dñs dñs n"oste"r q"uam" admirabile is written in the outer margin in a 15-16th century hand.

  8. check the viewerFol. 123r

    Pen trial. Title of the book: ( la ) Psalterium lingua ethiopica.

Decoration In this unit there are in total 2 , 1 .

Other Decorations

  1. band: check the viewerFol. 3r

    Coloured (red) ornamental band with interlaces, surrounding the text at the top, at the bottom and in the inner margin, in correspondence of Psalms of David, Psalmus 1.

  2. drawing: check the viewerFol. 84v

    Cross in black and red ink, in the inner margin.

  3. band: check the viewerFol. 107r

    Coloured (red) ornamental band with interlaces, surrounding the text at the top, at the bottom and in the inner margin, in correspondence of Psalms of David, Psalmus 101.

Catalogue Bibliography

  • Grébaut, S. and E. Tisserant 1935. Bybliothecae apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti iussu Pii XI Pontificis maximi. Codices Aethiopici Vaticani et Borgiani, Barberinianus orientalis 2, Rossianus 865, I: Enarratio codicum (Città del Vaticano: In Bybliotheca Vaticana, 1935). page 84-85
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  • Grébaut, S. and E. Tisserant 1936. Bybliothecae apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti iussu Pii XI Pontificis maximi. Codices Aethiopici Vaticani et Borgiani, Barberinianus orientalis 2, Rossianus 865, II: Prolegomena, Indices, Tabulae (Città del Vaticano: In Bybliotheca Vaticana, 1936). page 14-15
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Secondary Bibliography

Physical Description

Form of support

Parchment Codex

Extent

124 (leaf) , Entered as 124 2 (leaf, blank) : Entered as 2 check the viewerFols. 123v, 124v +NaN (quire) .Entered as 17 (A + 15 + B) 201 133
Outer dimensions
Height 201mm
Width 133mm

Foliation

Quire Structure Collation

Collation diagrams



Quire ID:q1, number:A
Collation diagram Quire 1 1 2 Unit #1


Quire ID:q2, number:1
Collation diagram Quire 2 3 10 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q3, number:2
Collation diagram Quire 3 11 18 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q4, number:3
Collation diagram Quire 4 19 26 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q5, number:4
Collation diagram Quire 5 27 34 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q6, number:5
Collation diagram Quire 6 35 42 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q7, number:6
Collation diagram Quire 7 43 50 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q8, number:7
Collation diagram Quire 8 51 58 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q9, number:8
Collation diagram Quire 9 59 66 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q10, number:9
Collation diagram Quire 10 67 74 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q11, number:10
Collation diagram Quire 11 75 82 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q12, number:11
Collation diagram Quire 12 83 90 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q13, number:12
Collation diagram Quire 13 91 98 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q14, number:13
Collation diagram Quire 14 99 106 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q15, number:14
Collation diagram Quire 15 107 114 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q16, number:15
Collation diagram Quire 16 115 122 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q17, number:B
Collation diagram Quire 17 123 124 Unit #1

Ethio-SPaRe formula : A(2/No image availableFols 1r–2v) – B(2/No image availableFols 123r–124v) – I(8/No image availableFols 3r–10v) – II(8/No image availableFols 11r–18v) – III(8/No image availableFols 19r–26v) – IV(8/No image availableFols 27r–34v) – V(8/No image availableFols 35r–42v) – VI(8/No image availableFols 43r–50v) – VII(8/No image availableFols 51r–58v) – VIII(8/No image availableFols 59r–66v) – IX(8/No image availableFols 67r–74v) – X(8/No image availableFols 75r–82v) – XI(8/No image availableFols 83r–90v) – XII(8/No image availableFols 91r–98v) – XIII(8/No image availableFols 99r–106v) – XIV(8/No image availableFols 107r–114v) – XV(8/No image availableFols 115r–122v) –

Formula: No image availableFols 1r–2v ; No image availableFols 3r–10v ; No image availableFols 11r–18v ; No image availableFols 19r–26v ; No image availableFols 27r–34v ; No image availableFols 35r–42v ; No image availableFols 43r–50v ; No image availableFols 51r–58v ; No image availableFols 59r–66v ; No image availableFols 67r–74v ; No image availableFols 75r–82v ; No image availableFols 83r–90v ; No image availableFols 91r–98v ; No image availableFols 99r–106v ; No image availableFols 107r–114v ; No image availableFols 115r–122v ; No image availableFols 123r–124v ;

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), 15 (8), 16 (8), 17 (2),

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), 15 (8), 16 (8), 17 (2),

State of preservation

deficient

Condition

Binding

Two covers of red leather.

Binding material

leather

Original binding

Yes

Layout

Layout note 1

Number of lines: 18

Palaeography

  • Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    Fine and careful handwriting

    Ink: Black, red

    Rubrication: Titles, cruces ansatae

    Date: 15th century

    15th century Archaic paleographic features: the upper part of some letters, e.g. ቆ, ቶ, የ, ደ, ጸ, and ዐ has a triangular shape; ሀ, ዐ, and ፀ have angular shapes; ዖ has the stroke marking the 7th order barely curved; the left stroke of ዘ is slightly slanted; the right stroke of ለ is slightly slanted to the left; numerals are written without dashes; ፪ has angular and not separated loops; ፳ is provided with a short stroke; ፴ has no left stroke; the upper part of ፻ has an angular shape; the word እግዚኣብሔር፡ is sometimes written with ኣ in the 4th order; the crux ansata and the zǝya-sign (ligature of ዝ and የ) are used.

      • Publication Statement

      authority
      Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
      pubPlace
      Hamburg
      publisher
      Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
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      date
      2016-11-14T14:15:37.552+02:00
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      23.8.2024 at 09:57:17
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      type=lastModified
      15.2.2024
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      https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BAVet20/main
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      BAVet20.xml
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      BAVet20

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    Revision history

    • Dorothea Reule Added history and bibliography on 15.2.2024
    • Massimo Villa Created catalogue entry on 14.11.2016
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