London, British Library, BL Additional 16240
Massimo Villa
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Collection: Additional
Other identifiers: Dillmann cat. LXXI, Dillmann 71
General description
Syllabary
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Original Location:
350-1847 Not dated by the cataloguer.Provenance
Collected by Carl Wilhelm Isenberg and Johann Ludwig Krapf
Contents
Ethiopic syllabary (CAe 4001) It includes, in addition to the 26 letters of the Ethiopic alphabet: the 4 labio-velars (ኰ, ቈ, etc.), 6 additional letters of the Amharic alphabet (ሸ, ቸ, ኘ, ዠ, ጀ, ጨ; ኸ is missing), and 8 additional dyphthongized letters (ሏ, ሟ, ሯ, ሷ, ቧ, ቷ, ኳ, ፏ).
Additions In this unit there are in total .
Catalogue Bibliography
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Dillmann, C. F. A. 1847. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur, III: Codices Aethiopicos amplectens (n.p.: E Museo Britannico, 1847). page 58b
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Scroll
Extent
Foliation
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Date:
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Massimo Villa, Alessandro Bausi, ʻLondon, British Library, BL Additional 16240ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-09-21) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BLadd16240 [Accessed: 2024-05-21]
Revisions of the data
- Massimo Villa Created catalogue entry on 21.9.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Massimo Villa, editor