Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Inni della Beata Vergine Maria.

Other related names

• Alkusei, Thomas, former owner
• Klein, Eugene, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 205
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703., University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968531643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853164

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ethiopic

Origin

Date

approximately 1600-1899

Place

Ethiopia

Summary

Collection of hymns, mostly to the Virgin Mary (Marie-Laure Derat, Institut des mondes africains, Centre national de la recherche scientifique).

Notes

• Ms. codex
   

Extent

54 leaves : 95 x 72 mm bound to 100 x 80 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (later paper) + 54 + i (later paper); 1-6⁸ 7⁸(-6, 7).

Support

Parchment

Binding

Leather, gilt-tooled, gilt spine with title Inni della BV Maria.

Script

Written by one hand in the 17th or 18th century (gatherings 2-5, f. 9r-40v) and four additional hands in the 19th century (first gathering, f. 2r-7r; sixth gathering, f. 41r-48v; seventh gathering with two hands, f. 49r-52v, 52v-54v) (Marie-Laure Derat, IMAF, CNRS).

Provenance

• Ownership inscription: Thomas Alkusei [?], professore linguarum orientalium Romae (18th or early 19th century?, f. 1v).
   
• Gift of Eugene Klein to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Hymns, Ethiopic

Genres

• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--19th century

Keywords

• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century
• Ethiopic
• Ethiopia
• Hymnal
• Document

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Hymns in honor of the Virgin Mary and Saint Gabra Manfas Qeddus, f. 2r
• fol. 9r — Weddasse Maryam (Praise of Mary), f. 9r
• fol. 41r — Anqasa Berhan (Gate of Light), f. 41r
• fol. 49r — Hymns in honor of the Virgin Mary, f. 49r