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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Acq. e doni 755

Pietro Maria Liuzzo (encoder)

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

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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana[view repository]

Collection: Acquisizioni e doni

Other identifiers: Marrassini 1, 107975

Persons IndexGeneralDescriptionPhysical DescriptionCatalogueTranscription Authors

General description

Number of Text units: 1

Number of Codicological units: 1

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Origin

19th-20th century

Contents

Fols 3r–82r

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Gospel of John (CAe 1693)

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

  1. Fol. 84r

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    (Type: OwnershipNote)

    The name of the owner Walda Kidān owner added in pencil; the note is illegible.

  2. Fols. 7v, 10v, 12r, 18r, 50v

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    (Type: findingAid)

    Indications for the week days za-sǝllus, za-ʾǝhud, za-sǝnuy, za-qadāmit, za-ʾǝhud added in pencil by a secondary hand.

  3. Fol. 68r

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    (Type: findingAid)

    Indications for the week day (za-ʿārb) by the main hand in red.

Extras

  1. Fols. 1r, 1v, 2v, 84v

    Prob. calami and doodles

  2. Handwritten pencil note "Acq. e doni 755" in modern hand in the middle of the inner back cover.

  3. Shelfmark on a sticker attached to the inner back cover.

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  4. Fol. 1r

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    107975 written on top at the right.

  5. Fols. 1r, 33r, 84v

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    (Type: StampExlibris)

    Round stamp Bibl...Laur... at the bottom of the pages.

  6. Fol. 83v

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    107975 written in the bottom margin.

  7. Fol. 84v

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    107975 written with pen.

Decoration In this unit there are in total 4 s.

Miniatures notes

  1. miniature: Fol. 2r

    Virgin and Child and 2 .

  2. miniature: Fol. 82v

    Crucifixion of Jesus

  3. miniature: Fol. 83r

    Jesus Christ Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

  4. miniature: Fol. 83v

    Evangelist Portrait

Catalogue Bibliography

  • Marrassini, P. 1984. ‘I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 30 (1984), 81–116 (DOI: 10.2307/41299683). page 87-88
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Physical Description

Form of support

Parchment Codex

Extent

84 (leaf) , Entered as 84 3 (leaf, blank) : Entered as 3 Fols. 1, , fols. 2v, , fol. 84v 141 110
Outer dimensions
Height 141mm
Width 110mm

Quire Structure Collation

Position Number Leaves Quires Description
1 1 2 Fols 1r–2v
2 2 10 Fols 3r–12v
3 3 10 Fols 13r–22v
4 4 10 Fols 23r–32v
5 5 10 Fols 33r–42v
6 6 8 Fols 43r–50v
7 7 8 Fols 51r–58v
8 8 10 Fols 59r–68v
9 9 10 Fols 69r–78v
10 10 6 Fols 79r–84v

Collation diagrams



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


Quire ID:q2, number:2
Collation diagram Quire 2 3 12 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q3, number:3
Collation diagram Quire 3 13 22 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q4, number:4
Collation diagram Quire 4 23 32 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q5, number:5
Collation diagram Quire 5 33 42 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q6, number:6
Collation diagram Quire 6 43 50 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q7, number:7
Collation diagram Quire 7 51 58 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4


Quire ID:q8, number:8
Collation diagram Quire 8 59 68 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q9, number:9
Collation diagram Quire 9 69 78 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3 Unit #4 Unit #5


Quire ID:q10, number:10
Collation diagram Quire 10 79 84 Unit #1 Unit #2 Unit #3

Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(2/Fols 1r–2v) – II(10/Fols 3r–12v) – III(10/Fols 13r–22v) – IV(10/Fols 23r–32v) – V(10/Fols 33r–42v) – VI(8/Fols 43r–50v) – VII(8/Fols 51r–58v) – VIII(10/Fols 59r–68v) – IX(10/Fols 69r–78v) – X(6/Fols 79r–84v) –

Formula: Fols 1r–2v ; Fols 3r–12v ; Fols 13r–22v ; Fols 23r–32v ; Fols 33r–42v ; Fols 43r–50v ; Fols 51r–58v ; Fols 59r–68v ; Fols 69r–78v ; Fols 79r–84v ;

Formula 1: 1 (2), 2 (10), 3 (10), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (8), 7 (8), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (6),

Formula 2: 1 (2), 2 (10), 3 (10), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (8), 7 (8), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (6),

Binding

Binding material

wood

Layout

Layout note 1

Number of columns: 2

Number of lines: 17

Palaeography

  • Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    Careful hand of the 19th to 20th century

    Ink: Black, red

    Rubrication: Nomina sacra, patron, titles, incipit

    • Publication Statement

    authority
    Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
    publisher
    Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
    pubPlace
    Hamburg
    availability
    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
    date
    type=expanded
    30.11.2023 at 09:11:40
    date
    type=lastModified
    1.3.2023
    idno
    type=collection
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    type=url
    https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLacq755/main
    idno
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    https://betamasaheft.eu/BMLacq755
    idno
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    BMLacq755.xml
    idno
    type=ID
    BMLacq755

    Edition Statement

    The images of the manuscript taken by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel during a mission funded by the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, the ERC Advanced Grant TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Grant Agreement no. 338756) and Beta maṣāḥǝft.

    The images are published in conjunction with this descriptive data about the manuscript with the permission of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, prot. 190/28.13.10.01/2.23 of the 24 January 2019 and are available for research purposes.

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    Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻFlorence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Acq. e doni 755ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2023-03-01) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLacq755 [Accessed: 2024-05-19]

    Revisions of the data

    • Eugenia Sokolinski added extras from the catalogue on 1.3.2023
    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo added text from transkribus and facsimile with xi:include on 8.2.2021
    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo Completed encoding from Marrassini Catalogue on 26.2.2019
    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created catalogue entry on 21.2.2019

    Attributions of the contents

    Alessandro Bausi, general editor

    Pietro Maria Liuzzo, editor

    Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor

    The images of the manuscript taken by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel during a mission funded by the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, the ERC Advanced Grant TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Grant Agreement no. 338756) and Beta maṣāḥǝft. The images are published in conjunction with this descriptive data about the manuscript with the permission of the https://www.bmlonline.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/, prot. 190/28.13.10.01/2.23 of the 24 January 2019 and are available for research purposes.
    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.