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Title

Zena nagaromu and hymns

Call number

LJS 102
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5964763
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5964763

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Ethiopic

Origin

Date

between 1900 and 1925

Place

Ethiopia

Summary

Account of Creation by the Trinity (Zena nagaromu, f. 1r), followed by hymns (f. 20v, 29v, 38r, 47v, 60r, 85v). Notes added in a different hand in the top margin (indications of day of the week for readings) and at the end of some hymns (f. 38v, 59v); some erased rubrics supplied in blue ink by a modern hand (for example, f. 31r, 40v, 51v, 85v). In addition to the brown thread markers in the upper outer corners of 3 illuminations (f. 36r, 71r, 100r), 2 leaves have a bit of magenta fiber threaded through their side margins (f. 76, 85), which may have served as another form of finding tab.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

100 leaves : 135 x 102 (83 x 80) mm. bound to 140 x 115 mm

Collation

Parchment, iv + 100 + iv; 1-10¹⁰.

Support

Parchment

Binding

20th-century wood boards with exposed spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 14 lines; ruled in drypoint with vertical bounding lines; prickings visible on most leaves.

Decoration

4 full-page paintings on erased pages, of the Virgin and Child with archangels Michael and Gabriel (f. 2r); the Crucifixion with Mary and John (f. 36r); Saint George and the dragon (f. 71r); and Christ and the Virgin in majesty (f. 100r), all but the first with thread markers on the upper outer corners of their leaves. Rubrication in red, with twin pairs of red lines separated by 2 or 3 black lines at the beginning of each hymn and significant words in red; rough decorative border (harag) in black and red at the top of the page at the beginning of 2 hymns (f. 1r, 38r).

Script

Written in räqiq script.

Provenance

• Possible ownership stamp in purple ink (f. 85v); possible ownership inscription in the same blue ink as supplied rubrics (f. iv verso).
   
• Sold in Cape Town, South Africa, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, April 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Hymns, Ethiopic
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian--Specimens
• Trinity--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Codices
• Hymns
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--20th century
• Manuscripts, Digital
• Finding tabs

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Virgin and Child with archangels Michael and Gabriel, f. 2r
• fol. 36r — Miniature, Crucifixion with Mary and John, f. 36r
• fol. 38r — Decorated border, f. 38r
• fol. 71r — Miniature, Saint George and the dragon, f. 71r
• fol. 100r — Miniature, Christ and the Virgin in majesty, f. 100r