Dagʿa Tamben, Tansǝḥe Kidāna Mǝḥrat, TKMG-012
Magdalena Krzyzanowska (cataloguer), Denis Nosnitsin
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the catalogue bibliography
General description
Gadla Kiros “Vita of Kiros” / Krǝstos za-bezawinä za-rägäzuki ba-rämḫ ba-mälǝʿltä masqal... “Christ, you who are our Redemptor, you who they pierced with a spear on the cross...” / Mǝśṭira ṣǝgeyāt “Mystery of the Flowers” / Ṣalota ʿǝṭan “Prayer of Incense” / Commemorative notice and ʾarke-hymn dedicated to St Roch / Prayer of Susǝnyos / Excerpt from ʾAsmat za-Sälomon-prayer / Maṣḥafa nuzāze “Book of Confession”
Number of Text units: 2
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Original Location: Tänsǝḥe Kidāna Mǝḥrat / TKMG↗
Patriarch of Alexandria ( liqa ṗāṗāsāt) ʾabbā Matewos (in tenure 1660-75), Metropolitan (ṗāṗās) ʾabbā Sinodā (in tenure 1671/72–92) and King Yoḥannǝs (I, r. 1667-82) are mentioned in the supplications on check the viewer52ra . King Yoḥannǝs is also mentioned in the supplication on check the viewer55rb and Metropolitan ʾabbā Sinodā on check the viewer56ra .Summary
Contents
Incipit ( ):
Explicit ( ):
- Texts V-VII concern protective and healing practices: Text V, Commemorative notice and salām-hymn for the 23rd of Miyāzyā dedicated to St Roch, is used against various diseases. Text VI, Prayer of Susǝnyos, protects pregnant women and newly-born children agains demons. Text VII, Excerpt from ʾAsmat za-Sälomon-prayer, is used against pain in legs. - For a text similar to Maṣḥafa nuzāze “Book of Confession”, called ʾAnqaṣa nǝssǝḥa “The Gate of Penitence, s. Ms.GKM-007Additio 1.
Additions In this unit there are in total .
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-v: Prayer to Jesus Christ.
The prayer is written in a very poor hand; the part on is illegible. -
-va: ʾAsmat-prayer.
The note contains an ʾAsmat-prayer called sälotä ʾarwe, recited upon people bitten by a snake. -
check the viewerff. 74ra-75 check the viewer75ra
ra: Ṭǝntä lǝdätomu la-mänäkosat “Origin of the Monks”.
The text is written in a hand similar to the main hand. The last eight lines ( l.3-10), which concern the monks of Tänsǝḥe, were added later in a crude hand.
Extras
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check the viewer1r-2v check the viewer9va check the viewer8ra check the viewer66rb check the viewer70rb check the viewer4r
- are made of a fragment of a 16th-cent. (?) Psalter. - Correction written over erasure, in the main hand: , 13ra, 15rb, 17ra, 18rb, 24ra, 25rb, 29vb, 31va, 33vb, 37va, 44va, 56va, 62rb, 72rb. - Erasures marked with thin lines: , 8vb, 10va, 25va, 44va, 66va. - Omitted letter written in the margin, in a secondary hand: . - A name has been erased from . - Pen trial: 79r. - Minor notes, scribbles: , 73v, 74r, 76rb, 77r, 79r. - Writing exercises (including syllabary), in the same crude hand: 75v-76v, 77v, 78v, 79rv.
Catalogue Bibliography
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MS Tansǝḥe Kidāna Mǝḥrat, Ethio-SPaRe
This manuscript has modern restorations.
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 145 |
Width | 135 |
Depth | 50 |
Foliation
Quire Structure Collation
Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
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1 | 2 |
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A(2/fols. 1r-2v) | |
2 | 8 |
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I(8/fols. 3r-10v) | |
3 | 8 |
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II(8/fols. 11r-18v) | |
4 | 8 |
|
III(8/fols. 19r-26v) | |
5 | 8 |
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IV(8/fols. 27r-34v) | |
6 | 6 |
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V(6/fols. 35r-40v) | |
7 | 8 |
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VI(8/fols. 41r-48v) | |
8 | 8 |
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VII(8/fols. 49r-56v) | |
9 | 8 |
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VIII(8/fols. 57r-64v) | |
10 | 8 |
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IX(8; s.l.: 3, stub after 5; 6, stub after 2/fols. 65r-72v) | |
11 | 4 |
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X(4/fols. 73r-76v) | |
12 | 3 |
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B(3; s.l.: 2; stub after 2/fols. 77r-79v). |
Collation diagrams
A(2/fols. 1r-2v)
Quire ID:q1
I(8/fols. 3r-10v)
Quire ID:q2
II(8/fols. 11r-18v)
Quire ID:q3
III(8/fols. 19r-26v)
Quire ID:q4
IV(8/fols. 27r-34v)
Quire ID:q5
V(6/fols. 35r-40v)
Quire ID:q6
VI(8/fols. 41r-48v)
Quire ID:q7
VII(8/fols. 49r-56v)
Quire ID:q8
VIII(8/fols. 57r-64v)
Quire ID:q9
IX(8; s.l.: 3, stub after 5; 6, stub after 2/fols. 65r-72v)
Quire ID:q10
X(4/fols. 73r-76v)
Quire ID:q11
B(3; s.l.: 2; stub after 2/fols. 77r-79v).
Quire ID:q12
Ethio-SPaRe formula : I(2/
Formula:
Formula 1: 1 (2), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (8), 8 (8), 9 (8), 10 (8), 11 (4), 12 (3),
Formula 2: 1 (2), 2 (8), 3 (8), 4 (8), 5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (8), 8 (8), 9 (8), 10 (8), 11 (4), 12 (3),
State of preservation
good
Condition
The Ms. has been resewn with a modern synthetic thread. The leather cover is missing. Numerous fols. are stained with wax and/or water.
Binding
Two wooden boards (the leather cover is missing). Two pairs of sewing stations.
Binding decoration
Two pairs of rows of small holes are visible on the spine fold of the quires, one pair close to the head and one pair close to the tail of the codex.
Binding material
wood
Original binding
No
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Number of lines: 18
H | 96mm |
W | 101mm |
Intercolumn | 9mm |
Margins | |
top | 20 |
bottom | 31 |
right | 25 |
left | 10 |
intercolumn | 9 |
Ms Dagʿa Tamben, Tansǝḥe Kidāna Mǝḥrat, TKMG-012 main part
has a sum of layout height of 147mm which is greater than the object height of 145mm has a sum of layout width of 136mm which is greater than the object height of 135mmLayout note 1
Ruling
- (Subtype: pattern) Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.
- The upper line is written above the ruling.
- The bottom line is written above the ruling.
Pricking
- Pricking and ruling are visible.
- Primary pricks are visible.
- Ruling pricks are visible.
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Fine and careful
Ink: Black, red (luminous vivid scarlet)
Rubrication: Nomina sacra; names of the patriarch, metropolitan and king; names of the donors; a few lines (alternating with black lines) in the incipit page of Texts I and III; one or two initial lines of Texts IV-VIii; sections of Text IV introduced with the words ṣalota (fol. 51va) or ṣalota ʿǝṭan and a few other words (fols. 57v, 58r); words salām on fol. 40ra and ṣalot on fol. 57vb; elements of the punctuation signs and Ethiopic numerals.
Date: Second half of the 17th century
Only the second part of the name of the scribe (Māryām) has been retained in the supplication formula on check the viewer39vb . The first part has been replaced by the name of one of the donors, ʾAśrāta Māryām.Second half of the 17th centuryHand 2
Script: Ethiopic
In the letter ጵ the hook vowel marker is attached to the left side of the stroke: check the viewer37rb .Check for additional bibliography
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Magdalena Krzyzanowska, Denis Nosnitsin, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻDagʿa Tamben, Tansǝḥe Kidāna Mǝḥrat, TKMG-012ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-05-10) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EStkmg012 [Accessed: 2024-05-21]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: transformed from mycore to TEI P5 on 10.5.2016
- Denis Nosnitsin Denis Nosnitsin: last edited in Ethio-SPaRe on 6.11.2014
- Magdalena Krzyzanowska Magdalena Krzyzanowska: catalogued in Ethio-SPaRe on 28.3.2014
- Denis Nosnitsin: Ethio-SPaRe team photographed the manuscript on 15.5.2012
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor