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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 321

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

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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana[view repository]

Collection: Orientali

Other identifiers: Marrassini ms. 21, Assemani CCCCV

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General description

Lexicon

Number of Text units: 1

Number of Codicological units: 1

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Origin

16th to early 17th century (dating on palaeographic grounds)

Summary

  1. ms_i1 (Fols 1r–68v

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    ), Gǝʿǝz-Latin Lexicon

Contents

Fols 1r–68v

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Gǝʿǝz-Latin Lexicon Many pages remain blank.

Additions In this unit there are in total 2 , 9 s.

    Extras

    1. (Type: findingAid)

      Ethiopian characters as finding aids at the top throughout to fol. 67v

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      .

    2. Fols 185r–189v

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      (Type: findingAid)

      Arabic characters as finding aids at the top fols 185r–188v

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      . Apparently the author wanted to begin an Arabic lexicon and started to note finding aids of Arabic letters at the top of the folios.

    3. (Type: StampExlibris)

      "Orient 321" in pencil by a recent European hand on a sheet of paper glued to the inner board.

    4. (Type: StampExlibris)

      "N. 405 - X" in ink on the spine, partly effaced.

    5. (Type: StampExlibris)

      "321" in ink on the spine, partly effaced.

    6. (Type: StampExlibris)

      Dell'aff.mo sig. Cardinale di S. Giorgio. Fu del fu fra Thomaso in ink by a hand that is not recent, on a sheet of paper glued to the inside front cover.

    7. (Type: StampExlibris)

      egyptio in ink at the front cover.

    8. (Type: StampExlibris)

      "402" in red ink at a paper batch glued at the front cover and corrected to "405".

    9. (Type: StampExlibris)

      '200' upside down in ink on a sheet of paper glued to the inside back cover.

    10. Fol. 1r

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      Large oval stamp with a coat of arms and the following inscription: BIBL. CAES. MED. PALAT..

    11. Fols. 1r, 188v

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      Small round stamp with a coat of arms and the following inscription: R. BIBLIOTECA MED. LAUR. - FIRENZE.

    Catalogue Bibliography

    • Marrassini, P. 1987. ‘I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 31 (1987), 69–110 (DOI: 10.2307/41299700). page 105-106
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    • Assemani, G. S. 1719. Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana: In qua manuscriptos codices Syriacos, Arabicos, Persicos, Turcicos, Hebraicos, Samaritanos, Armenicos, Aethiopicos, Graecos, Aegyptiacos, Ibericos, & Malabaricos, jussu et munificentia Clementis XI. Pontificis Maximi ex Oriente conquisitos, comparatos, avectos, & Bibliothecae Vaticanae addictos (Romae: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719). page 431
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    Physical Description

    Form of support

    Paper Codex

    Extent

    189 (leaf) , Entered as 189 Dimensions refer to the information given in the scan images and vary considerably from the dimensions given in Marrassini 1987a, who probably refer to the dimensions of the folia. 160 (leaf, blank) : Entered as 160 Fols 4–6,

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    240 139 31
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    Foliation

    Foliated in pen by at the upper right by the author's own hand ending up with 188, as no. 66 being erroneously numbered twice (referred as 66 and 66bis in this description).

    State of preservation

    intact

    Condition

    Binding

    European binding in yellowish parchment.

    Binding material

    parchment

    European binding in yellowish parchment.

    Original binding

    No

    Layout

    Layout note 1

    Number of columns: 2

    Palaeography

  1. Hand 1

    Script: Ethiopic

    15th to early 16th century

    Ink: black

    Minute and regular script by an European hand.

    2. Keywords

      Publication Statement

      authority
      Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
      publisher
      Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
      pubPlace
      Hamburg
      availability
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      type=expanded
      22.2.2024 at 08:53:32
      date
      type=lastModified
      18.12.2023
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      manuscripts
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      https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLor321/main
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      BMLor321.xml
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      BMLor321

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    Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Carsten Hoffmann, ʻFlorence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 321 (encoded from the catalogue)ʼ, in Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2023-12-18) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLor321 [Accessed: 2024-11-04]

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    Revision history

    • Carsten Hoffmann updated physical description and content description according to catalogue on 18.12.2023
    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo added text from transkribus and facsimile with xi:include on 20.9.2021
    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created catalogue entry on 21.2.2019
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    Attribution of the content

    Alessandro Bausi, general editor

    Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor

    Carsten Hoffmann, 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.
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