Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 63
Jonah Sandford, Ralph Lee, Ashlee Benson
EMIP
General description
Weiner Codex 63
Number of Text units: 1
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
beginning of the twenty-first century
Contents
Decoration In this unit there are in total 10 s.
Miniatures notes
- miniature:
Fol. 1
St George of Lydda and the , Holy Man Portrait with caption Legend: ( ) “Saint George.”
- miniature:
Fol. 2
Virgin and Child with caption Legend: ( ) “With her beloved son.”
- miniature:
Fol. 3
Holy Man Portrait Job with caption Legend: ( ) “Job, the Righteous.”
- miniature:
Fol. 4
St Mary with caption Legend: ( ) “Our Lady.” The Holy Mother stands center facing an angel. With her right hand (left) she holds the arm of a cannibal who had eaten 72 people, and yet had given a cup of water in her name. A demon holds the foot of the man. An angel, with a set of balances, comes to claim him and Mary asks the angel to put 72 souls on one side and the cup of water on the other side. She casts her shadow on the side of the cup of water and it balances. Below are three other figures (caption illegible)
- miniature:
Fol. 5
Holy Men Potrait wo saints seated with texts. To the right is a crowd of people, with caption Legend: ( ) “Our Lord; Apostles.”
- miniature:
Fol. 6
Holy Man Portrait. Saint with child on lap. Crowds are on the left and right. A saint stands on the right before the crowd. In front of these are two saints (lower portion of image) gesturing toward man in lower center whose back is turned toward the viewer, with caption Legend: ( ) “Apostles.”
- miniature:
Fol. 7
Holy Men Potrait, Peter and Paul with caption Legend: ( ) “Saint Peter; Saint Paul.”
- miniature:
Fol. 8
Holy Men Potrait. Two saints stand with hands folded in front, with caption Legend: ( ) “Saints.”
- miniature:
Fol. 9
Holy Men Potrait. Two saints stand with hands folded in front, with caption Legend: ( ) “Abba Afǝṣe; Abba Guba” (two of the nine saints from Syria)
- miniature:
Fol. 10
Holy Men Potrait. Two saints stand with hands folded in front, with illegible caption
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | 150mm |
Width | 130mm |
Depth | 25mm |
Quire Structure Collation
Binding
Parchment, 150 x 130 x 25 mm. No covers. Single sheet of heavy parchment. The parchment is folded so that ten panels are available for artwork. On the back of the parchment, the lines of the fold have been scored with a knife and the parchment cut half way through. The backs of the panels are blank. Though the parchment is dirty, it appears to be new and firm.
Binding material
parchment
Original binding
Yes
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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.
Encoding Description
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Jonah Sandford, Ralph Lee, Ashlee Benson, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻPortland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 63ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2020-12-11) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP00168 [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Removed textlang statement on 11.12.2020
- Ashlee Benson Ashlee Benson: Updated id numbers on 23.11.2020
- Ashlee Benson Ashlee Benson: Added facs statements on 17.11.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Corrected ǝ character on 18.4.2020
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Minor edits to format of miniature description on 27.9.2019
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Changed formatting of miniature descriptions and amended title on 13.9.2019
- Ralph Lee Ralph Lee: Added artwork description on 10.9.2019
- Jonah Sandford Jonah Sandford: Added binding desc, dating info on 20.7.2018
- 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