Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Aeth. c. 5
Dorothea Reule
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the Catalogue Bibliography
General description
Dǝggʷā
Number of Text units: 5
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
1767 (internal-date reign)
Provenance
The manuscript was given to the Bodleian Library↗ by Weld Herbert Blundell in 1918.
Summary
- ms_i1
(check the viewerFols 2r and following ),
Dǝggʷā
- ms_i1.1 (check the viewerFol. 2r ), Introductory notes
- ms_i1.2 (check the viewerFol. 67r ), Table of Halleluyahs
- ms_i1.3 (check the viewerFols 120r and following ), Second part of the Dǝggʷā
- ms_i1.4 (check the viewerFol. 183r ), Table of Halleluyahs
Contents
check the viewerFols 2r and following Dǝggʷā (CAe 3178)
Language of text:
Profuse musical notation.
The manuscript seems to be largely identical with London, British Library, BL Oriental 585, but contains apparently many hymns not found in London, British Library, BL Additional 16195 and London, British Library, BL Oriental 585.check the viewerFol. 2r Introductory notes
Language of text:
The introductory notes, extending over the larger part of check the viewerfol. 2r , also reveal the date of this manuscript, the 12th year of the reign of ʾIyoʾas I , 1767.Additions In this unit there are in total .
Extras
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Pen trials.
Text in Gǝʿǝz
Catalogue Bibliography
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Ullendorff, E. 1951. Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, II, Catalogi Codd. Mss. Bibliothecae Bodleianae, 7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951). page 9ab
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 13in |
Width | 10.5in |
Binding
Ethiopian binding: wooden boards covered with red cloth; in a leather case with strap.
Binding material
wood
textile
leather
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 3
Number of lines: 32
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Written throughout by the same scribe in a very good and small hand.
Date: 1767 (internal)
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