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

Title

Ethiopian liturgical manuscript.

Authors

• YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān

Other related names

• Mātéwos, Metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, approximately 1843-1926, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023070065)
• Mercer, Samuel A. B. 1880-1969, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83166154)
• Endowment for Biblical Research, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85245361)
• Newberry Library, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004207)

Call number

Ms. Codex 2338
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979215021803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1551449676

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ethiopic

Origin

Date

before 1914

Place

Ethiopia

Summary

Manuscript copy of the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, with a cross in square diagram (p. 255).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

131 leaves : 165 x 115 (120 x 90) mm bound to 170 x 115 mm

Collation

Parchment, 131; 1⁴⁻¹(-2) 2-13¹⁰ 14⁸: [i-vi, 1-256], modern pagination in pencil, upper center.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Ethiopian or Coptic binding with wooden covers, chain stitch sewing, and uncovered spine. Repaired since 1985, when the description in the Endowment for Biblical Research catalog noted that the back cover was detached and that a string bundle bookmark, no longer with the manuscript, was attached.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 23 lines; ruled in hard point with vertical bounding lines; pricking visible in outer margins throughout and in upper and lower margins occasionally.

Decoration

Cross in square diagram in red and black ink (p. 255); text in black and red ink throughout.

Script

Written in Ge'ez (or Ethiopic) script.

Provenance

• Gift of Abuna Mātéwos, Metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, to Samuel A. B. Mercer, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament literature at Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1914; Mercer Ms. Eth. 3 (Mercer note in ink, p. i).
   
• Gift of Samuel A. B. Mercer to the Zion Research Library (Brookline, Massachusetts; in 1976 renamed the Endowment for Biblical Research), through Marguerite A. Smith, Librarian (Mercer note in ink, p. i); held in that library through at least 1985 (MS 20).
   
• Formerly held by the Newberry Library (Chicago) and deaccessioned in the 1990s.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2023.
   

Subjects topical

• YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān--Liturgy--Texts

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• Liturgical books
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Ethiopic--20th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — [Ethiopian liturgical manuscript]

Decorations

• 255 — Diagram, Cross in square