Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 041
Jonah Sandford, Ashlee Benson, Ralph Lee
Tweed Collection, EMIP
General description
Tweed Codex 041
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Eighteenth century
Contents
Fols 1r–166r
Language of text:
Mazmura Dāwit, Psalm 118 including the Spritual Meaning of the Hebrew Letters, Occasionally, a second spiritual meaning is inserted by a later handAdditions In this unit there are in total 2 , 3 s, 1 .
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Fol. iv(erso) (Type: GuestText)
Excerpt from Malkǝʾ-hymn to Our Lady Mary (CAe 2940)
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f.167r, column one and top of column two (Type: Asmat)
Asmat prayer to bring a person back to their home
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Instructions about the measurement of shadows for the telling of time throughout the year. Incipit: መስከረም፡ እና፡ መጋቢት፡ ነግሁ፡ ሃያ፡ አራት፡ ሰለስቱ፡ አስር፡ ነው፡ ቀትሩ፡ አራት፡
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Treatise on the spiritual meanings of the Hebrew Letters, incomplete at the end. Written in a different hand of the nineteenth century. Incipit: አሌፍ፡ ዘይቤ፡ ኍላቄሁ፡ ፳፪ ይተረጐም፡ በ፳ወ፪ ግብራት፡ ፍጡራን፡ አሌፍ፡ ብሂል፡ አነ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡
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f. 167r, column one and top of column two (Type: Asmat)
Asmat prayer to bring a person back to their home
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f. 167r, column two (Type: Asmat)
Asmat prayer against an enemy in the court
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Excerpt from Wǝddāse Māryām (CAe 2509) for Sunday, copied in a nineteenth- or twentieth-century hand
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Fol. 166r (Type: OwnershipNote)
Note of ownership, with the original owner’s name erased. A secondary owner is listed below, Ǝmäyät Žämanäš
Extras
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Pen trials and notes, written upside down
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badly faded seal
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Psalms 118–130 are misnumbered
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erased, illegible note
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inventory of cattle, written in a crude hand
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List of properties. Judge, witnesses, and participants in a court case are mentioned
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Identified in the insurance hand list as Psalter 25
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red, yellow, and blue string is sewn into the fore edge as navigation system
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red string is sewn into the fore edge as navigation system
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Numbered quires: quires 2–9, check the viewerfols. q2, q3, q4, q5, q6, q7, q8, q9
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Occasionally, a second spiritual meaning to the Hebrew letters of Ps118 is inserted by a later hand
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etc., words of text are written interlinearly
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Fols. 78r, 108v, 110v, 113v, 135r
etc., lines of text are written interlinearly
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lines of text written in the upper margin with a symbol (┴) marking the location where the text is to be inserted
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etc., erasure markings are visible
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Fols. 17r, 62r, 91v, 101v, 104r
etc., text has been removed
Decoration In this unit there are in total 1 , 1 .
Frame notes
- frame: Decorative designs: fols. 8r, 15v, 24v, 35v, 44r, 50v, 60v, 73r, 82r, 88v, 103r, 114v, 117v, 124r, 130v, 144r, 151v (line of alternating red and black dots)
Miniatures notes
- miniature: Fol. iiv(erso)
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Watermark
No
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 222mm |
Width | 200mm |
Depth | 72mm |
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | a | 2 |
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2 | 1 | 10 |
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Quire 1 |
3 | 2 | 10 |
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Quire 2 |
4 | 3 | 10 |
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Quire 3 |
5 | 4 | 10 |
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Quire 4 |
6 | 5 | 10 |
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Quire 5 |
7 | 6 | 10 |
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Quire 6 |
8 | 7 | 10 |
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Quire 7 |
9 | 8 | 10 |
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Quire 8 |
10 | 9 | 10 |
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Quire 9 |
11 | 10 | 10 |
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Quire 10 |
12 | 11 | 10 |
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Quire 11 |
13 | 12 | 10 |
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Quire 12 |
14 | 13 | 10 |
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Quire 13 |
15 | 14 | 12 |
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Quire 14 |
16 | 15 | 11 |
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17 | 16 | 8 |
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Quire 16 |
18 | 17 | 6 |
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Quire 17 |
Collation diagrams
Protection Quire: 1, stub after 2 2, stub after 2
Quire ID:q1, number:a
Notes: 1)
Quire 1
Quire ID:q2, number:1
Quire 2
Quire ID:q3, number:2
Quire 3
Quire ID:q4, number:3
Quire 4
Quire ID:q5, number:4
Quire 5
Quire ID:q6, number:5
Quire 6
Quire ID:q7, number:6
Quire 7
Quire ID:q8, number:7
Quire 8
Quire ID:q9, number:8
Quire 9
Quire ID:q10, number:9
Quire 10
Quire ID:q11, number:10
Quire 11
Quire ID:q12, number:11
Quire 12
Quire ID:q13, number:12
Quire 13
Quire ID:q14, number:13
Quire 14
Quire ID:q15, number:14
Quire 15: 7, stub after 4
Quire ID:q16, number:15
Notes: 1)
Quire 16
Quire ID:q17, number:16
Quire 17
Quire ID:q18, number:17
Ethio-SPaRe formula : a(0+2/s.l. 1, stub after 2; s.l. 2, stub after 2/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (), 2 (10), 3 (10), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (10), 13 (10), 14 (10), 15 (12), 16 (11), 17 (8), 18 (6),
Formula 2: 1 (), 2 (10), 3 (10), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (10), 8 (10), 9 (10), 10 (10), 11 (10), 12 (10), 13 (10), 14 (10), 15 (12), 16 (11), 17 (8), 18 (6),
Binding
Parchment, 222 x 200 x 72 mm, four Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards of the traditional wood covered with tooled leather.
Binding material
parchment
wood
leather
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
H | |
W | |
Margins | |
top | 30mm |
bottom | 48mm |
right | 36mm |
left | 16mm |
Ms Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 041 main part
looks ok for measures computed width is: NaNmm, object width is: 200mm, computed height is: NaNmm and object height is: 222mm.Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Rubrication: ማርያም፡
The word God is not rubricated in the first three works; the word Mary is rubricated in the final two works Columetric layout of text: fols. 130r, (Ps. 150); 140r, 140v (tenth Biblical Canticle).Check for additional bibliography
Publication Statement
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Edition Statement
The initial version of this file was created from data kindly provided by the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project directed by Steve Delamarter.
Dedicated to Cain Hope Felder
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Jonah Sandford, Ashlee Benson, Ralph Lee, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻWashington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 041ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2020-08-05) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP01990 [Accessed: 2024-05-17]
Revisions of the data
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Added link to spiritual meaning of Hebrew letters in Ps118, minor formatting edits on 5.8.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: corrected ǝ character on 17.4.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Minor edits to additions and extras on 18.2.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Added image links on 13.12.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: updated msIdentifier for Tweed collection. on 13.11.2019
- Jonah Sandford Jonah Sandford: Added quire maps, margin dim, columns/lines, binding desc, dating info. on 3.11.2019
- Ashlee Benson Ashlee Benson: Added items on 23.10.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created XML record from EMIP Collection Metadata.xsls on 18.1.2018
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor