Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 174
Denis Nosnitsin (cataloguer)
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the Catalogue Bibliography
Collection: Manuscrits orientaux, Fonds éthiopien, d'Abbadie
General description
Shepherd of Hermas
Number of Text units: 3
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
1847 According to Abbadie 1859, the text Content Item 1 ዘሄርማ፡ ነቢይ፡ (CAe 1594) was copied at Gʷalʿā (near Golʿa Dabra Bǝrhān Yoḥannǝs↗ ) on paper, for Antoine d’Abbadie [d’Arrast] bequeather , at the Catholic mission administered by Giustino De Jacobis , from an exemplar manuscript that came from Gunda Gunde↗ and was presumably dated to 1538. That manuscript has not been identified yet (possibly lost; it is thought to be different from a copy of the same text, Shepherd of Hermas, acquired at Gunda Gunde↗ later by A. Mordini ).
Acquisition
The manuscript entered the Bibliothèque nationale de France↗ in 1902.
Summary
- ms_i1 (check the viewer1-89 ), ዘሄርማ፡ ነቢይ፡
- ms_i1.2 (check the viewer91-101 ), Rules of Pachomius
- ms_i1.3 (check the viewer103-161 ), Gadla ʾAbakarazun
Contents
check the viewer1-89 ዘሄርማ፡ ነቢይ፡ (CAe 1594)
Language of text:
Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):
(Used for the edition Abbadie 1860.)check the viewer91-101 Rules of Pachomius (CAe 2228)
Language of text: and Amharic
Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):
( Dillmann 1866. )check the viewer103-161 Gadla ʾAbakarazun (CAe 1405)
Language of text: and Amharic
Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ):
(Used in the edition .)Additions In this unit there are in total 1 , 3 s, 1 .
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check the viewerii (Type: Unclear)
Unreadable note written in an European hand, in an unidentified script (possibly a "shorthand").
Extras
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(Type: StampExlibris)
Shelf-mark of the Library on the inner side of the front board.
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check the viewer1 (Type: StampExlibris)
Stamp of the Library.
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check the viewer35 (Type: Correction)
Omitted passage is written in the upper margin, in a secondary hand, its place in the text is indicated with a tamallas-sign.
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Cues for the rubricator: numbers written in the margins of many folia, repeated in the main text, apparently in red.
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check the viewer161 (Type: StampExlibris)
Stamp of the Library.
Catalogue Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C. 1914. Notice sur les manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection d’Abbadie, Extrait du Journal Asiatique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1914). page 61-62, number 34
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Chaîne, M. 1912. Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection Antoine d’Abbadie (Paris: Imprimerie nationale–Ernest Leroux, éditeur, 1912). page 105, number 174
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Abbadie, A. d’ 1859. Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits éthiopiens appartenant à Antoine d’Abbadie (Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1859). page 174, number 180-181
Secondary Bibliography
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Erho, T. M. 2019. ‘A Fourth Ethiopic witness to the Shepherd of Hermas’, in M. Toca and D. Batovici, eds, Caught in translation: Studies on Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, 17 (Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2019), 241–266. page 242-243, note 8
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Abbadie, A. d’ 1860. Hermae Pastor. Aethiopice primum edidit et Aethiopica Latine vertit, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 2,1 (Lipsiae: in commissis apud F. A.Brockhausium, 1860). page vi
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
| Outer dimensions | |
| Height | 210mm |
| Width | 170mm |
Foliation
The manuscript is paginated, the page numbers are written in the outer corner of the upper margin. Unpaginated leaves at the beginning and the end of the volume have been assigned numbers check the vieweri (originally marked with the letter A), check the viewerii , check the viewer162 .
Quire Structure Collation
Signatures:
| Position | Number | Leaves | Quires | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8 | No image availablei-22 |
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| 2 | 2 | 10 | No image available23-42 |
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| 3 | 3 | 12 | No image available43-62 |
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| 4 | 4 | 10 | No image available63-82 |
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| 5 | 5 | 10 | No image available83-102 |
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| 6 | 6 | 10 | No image available103-122 |
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| 7 | 7 | 12 | No image available123-142 |
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| 8 | 8 | 10 | No image available143-162 |
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Collation diagrams
Quire ID:q1, number:1, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q2, number:2, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q3, number:3, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q4, number:4, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q5, number:5, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q6, number:6, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q7, number:7, Ethiopic quire number:
Quire ID:q8, number:8, Ethiopic quire number:
Ethio-SPaRe formula : ፩I(8/No image availablei-22) – ፪II(10/No image available23-42) – ፫III(12/No image available43-62) – ፬IV(10/No image available63-82) – ፭V(10/No image available83-102) – ፮VI(10/No image available103-122) – ፯VII(12/No image available123-142) – ፰VIII(10/No image available143-162) –
Formula: No image availablei-22 ; No image available23-42 ; No image available43-62 ; No image available63-82 ; No image available83-102 ; No image available103-122 ; No image available123-142 ; No image available143-162 ;
Formula 1: 1 (8), 2 (10), 3 (12), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (12), 8 (10),
Formula 2: 1 (8), 2 (10), 3 (12), 4 (10), 5 (10), 6 (10), 7 (12), 8 (10),
Binding
European binding; quires are held together with tackets.
Binding material
cardboard
paper
Original binding
No
Layout
Ruling
- (Subtype: pattern)1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C
Pricking
- Pricking is hardly visible on the images.
- Ruling is hardly visible on the images.
Palaeography
Hand 1
Script: Ethiopic
First half of the 19th century script.
Ink: Black, red (poorly visible on the accessible duplicates).
Fine, careful, somewhat irregular; by a mediocre but experienced scribe.Select one of the keywords listed from the record to see related data
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