Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 470
Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford
EMIP
General description
Weiner Codex 470
Number of Text units: 5
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth century
Summary
- ms_i1
(Fols 3r–81v
- ms_i2
(Fols 83r–88v
- ms_i3
(Fols 89r and following
- ms_i4
(Fols 91r–136v
- ms_i5
(Fols 138v–139v,
Contents
Fols 3r–81v
Language of text:
arranged for the days of the week by two handsFols 89r and following
Language of text:
Excerpt of Image of Jesus Christ with a concluding prayerFols 91r–136v
Language of text:
attributed to Abba Heryakos, translation attributed to Abba Salama, usually a part of Gabra Haymamat. ድርሳን፡ ዘደረሰ፡ አባ፡ ሕርያቆስ፡ ኤጲስ፡ ቆጶስ፡ ዘሀግረ፡ ብሕንሳ፡. The copy is well executed. For folios check the viewerfols 91r–102r , a reader has entered a note in the bottom margin of each column: the first line of each stanza from Praise of the Beloved in Honor of Mary, ስብሐተ፡ ፍቁር፡ ዘማርያምFols 138v–139v,
Language of text:
Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):ናሁ፡ ወጠንኩ፡ ዝክረ፡ ውዳሴከ፡
Additions In this unit there are in total 14 s, 1 , 2 .
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Gospel of John: Monday
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Gospel of John: Saturday
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Gospel of John: Tuesday
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Gospel of John: Wednesday
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Gospel of John: Thursday
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Gospel of John: Friday
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Gospel of John: Sunday, a secondary hand, in pencil
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Gospel of John: Sunday
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Gospel of John: Monday
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Gospel of John: Saturday
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Gospel of John: Tuesday
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Gospel of John: Saturday
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Gospel of John: Saturday
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Gospel of John: Daily
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መልዓ
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Prayer to God for Monday
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Prayer to God for Tuesday
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Prayer to God for Wednesday, written in a different hand and lighter black ink
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Asmat prayer to make a cat stay in the house, to be recited when it drinks milk
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Prayer to God for Thursday
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Prayer to God for Friday
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Prayer to God for Saturday
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Fols. 3r, 82r, 136v (Type: OwnershipNote)
The name of the original owner and his wife have been erased
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at the end of the መልዓ is the remains of a prayer for the owner and the owner’s wife, whose names has been erased
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Fols. 88v, 89r (Type: OwnershipNote)
a closing prayer mentions original owner, [አለ]ቀ ኤዎስጣቴዎስ, and his wife, ወለተ ቅደሳን. The name of the original owner is effaced and overwritten with አሰትእ ኢየሱስ. Another name, ወለተ ማርያም, is written over the place where the original owner’s wife’s name had been. It was in turn overwritten with አስከለ ድን[ግ]ል in small black letters
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Fols. 90v, 91r, 97v, 110v, 120r
Yet a third hand marks days of the week: Friday (f. 90v), Monday (91r), Tuesday (97v), Thursday (110v), Friday (120r)
Extras
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Fine fabric is visible between the turndowns on both the inside front and back covers
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Watermark
No
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | mm |
Width | mm |
Depth | mm |
Binding
Binding material
parchment
wood
leather
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 18
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Ashlee Benson, Jonah Sandford, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Ralph Lee, ʻPortland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 470ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-06-03) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP03242 [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Jonah Sandford Added columns/lines, binding desc, dating info. on 3.6.2021
- Ralph Lee Corrected Weiner Codex number, formatting edits on 8.9.2020
- Ashlee Benson Added location to major work on 23.7.2020
- Ashlee Benson Added items on 4.5.2020
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from EMIP Collection Metadata.xsls on 18.1.2018
Attributions of the contents
Ashlee Benson, editor
Jonah Sandford, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Ralph Lee, contributor