Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Sobania 2
Ashlee Benson, Ralph Lee, Jonah Sandford
EMIP
General description
Sobania 2
Number of Text units: 14
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
Late-seventeenth/early-eighteenth century
Provenance
The manuscript has been donated to Hope College, Holland Michigan, where it as assigned the accession number TR2017.75.485.1
Summary
- ms_i1
(Fols 2r–202r
- ms_i1.2
(Fols 163r–179v
- ms_i1.3
(Fols 180r–187v
- ms_i1.4
(Fols 188r–198r
- ms_i1.4.1
(Fols 188r and following
- ms_i1.4.2
(Fols 189r and following
- ms_i1.4.3
(Fols 190v and following
- ms_i1.4.4
(Fols 192r and following
- ms_i1.4.5
(Fols 194v and following
- ms_i1.4.6
(Fols 195v and following
- ms_i1.4.7
(Fols 196v and following
- ms_i1.4.1
(Fols 188r and following
- ms_i1.5
(Fols 198r–202r
- ms_i1.1
(Fols 2r–162v
- ms_i1.2
(Fols 163r–179v
Contents
Fols 2r–202r
Language of text:
Fols 2r–162v
Language of text:
Mazmura Dāwit, Psalm 118 including the Spritual Meaning of the Hebrew Letters listed for only the first four letters Fol. 162v , Ethiopic Psalter, Chp151 contains the first, third and fourth of the plusses that make up the long version Scribal doxology at the end of the PsalmsFols 163r–179v
Language of text:
Fol. 168v , The Prayer of Hannah, mother of Samuel the Prophet, Hannah noted as Prayer of Hana, mother of SamuelFols 180r–187v
Language of text:
In the common version Song of Songs is laid out beginning with Monday and culminating in Sunday Fol. 187v , Scribal prayer invoking the memory of someone (whose name has been erased) at the end of the Song of SongsAdditions In this unit there are in total 2 .
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Measurement for the Shadow, ስፍረ፡ ጽላሎት፡ ዘጊዜ፡ ቁርባን፡ List of shadows in each month, for the calculation of the times of services
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ʾAsmāt-prayer (general record) (CAe 5888) for help with pain in childbirth, ጸሎት፡ በእንተ፡ ሕማመ፡ ወሊድ፡, written in a later hand of the 20th century
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scribal doxology at the end of the Biblical Canticles, in a secondary hand
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(Type: Asmat)
Fol. 202v , Asmat prayer against Barya, written in a later hand
Extras
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The midpoint of the Psalms is unmarked
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Tooled leather covers (much of which is lost), with colored cloth visible between the paste downs
Physical Description
Form of support
Codex
Watermark
No
Extent
Outer dimensions | |
Height | mm |
Width | mm |
Depth | mm |
Binding
Parchment. Wooden boards, covered with tooled leather, fine fabric is visible between the pastedowns on the front and back inside covers.
Binding material
parchment
wood
leather
textile
Original binding
Yes
Layout
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
Rubrication:
The word for God is not rubricated in the first three works Columetric layout is only in the 10th biblical canticle and not in Psalter, Chp150 or Psalms of David, Psalmus 148 The scribe distinguishes the numbers 6 from 7, by writing the 6 much smaller than the 7. See, e.g., Psalter, Ps76Check for additional bibliography
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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Ashlee Benson, Ralph Lee, Jonah Sandford, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻPortland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Sobania 2ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2021-05-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/EMIP03223 [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Jonah Sandford Added columns/lines, binding desc, dating info. on 27.5.2021
- Ralph Lee Major edits to formatting including spiritual meaning of Hebrew letters in Ps118 on 7.8.2020
- Ashlee Benson Added items on 10.6.2020
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from EMIP Collection Metadata.xsls on 18.1.2018
Attributions of the contents
Ashlee Benson, editor
Ralph Lee, editor
Jonah Sandford, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor