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Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 70

Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo (encoder)

This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the Catalogue Bibliography

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https://betamasaheft.eu/BMLor70
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana[view repository]

Collection: Orientali

Other identifiers: Marrassini ms. 2, BML 2

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Catalogue Bibliography

  • Marrassini, P. 1984. ‘I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 30 (1984), 81–116 (DOI: 10.2307/41299683). page 88-91

Secondary Bibliography

  • Bausi, A. 2015. ‘Johann Michael Wansleben’s manuscripts and texts. An update’, in A. Bausi, A. Gori, D. Nosnitsin, and E. Sokolinski, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies. Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17-19 July 2014, Supplement to Aethiopica, 4 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 197–244. page 230

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Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻFlorence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, BML Or. 70 (encoded from the catalogue)ʼ, in Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-09-20) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BMLor70 [Accessed: 2024-12-21]

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Revision history

  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo added text from transkribus and facsimile with xi:include on 20.9.2021
  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo Completed encoding of main features (contents list, collation, structure of description, physical description) from Marrassini Catalogue on 27.2.2019
  • Dorothea Reule Created catalogue entry on 22.11.2016
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Alessandro Bausi, general editor

Dorothea Reule, editor

Pietro Maria Liuzzo, editor

The images of the manuscript taken by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel during a mission funded by the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, the ERC Advanced Grant TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Grant Agreement no. 338756) and Beta maṣāḥǝft. The images are published in conjunction with this descriptive data about the manuscript with the permission of the https://www.bmlonline.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/, prot. 190/28.13.10.01/2.23 of the 24 January 2019 and are available for research purposes.
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