Philadelphia, Princeton University Library, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 40
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General description
Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 40: Psalter. Dawit
Number of Text units: 12
Number of Codicological units: 1
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Origin
1700s
Summary
Illustrations: Fols. 3r, 8v, 14r, 20r, 28r, 34r, 38v, 55r, 61v, 66r, 76r, 79v, 88r, 93r, 98v, 109r, 115r, 123v: Häräg.
Illustration: fol. 1v: Miniature of a mustached man in purple and red. Probably the owner.
Illustration: Fol. 2r: Miniature of King David playing the harp.
Illustration: Fol. 43v: Miniature of Christ: Crucifixion: One Cross: with the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist.
Striking images are atypical of Psalters, but these are not painted over the text, they are original to the manuscript.
Fols. 1r, 2v: In another hand, information on determining the hours by measuring the shadows of the sun (continued across folios).
Fols. 2v, 128rv: In another hand, information on when to break fasts (continued across folios).
Fol. 119v: Missing lines inserted in upper margin.
No owner listed.
No scribe listed.
Gift of Bruce Willsie, Princeton Class of 1986.
Psalm 118 does not include additions about the spiritual meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet.
Fol. 51r: Cross in black ink, with the words "half of them" in Ge'ez inside, marking the mid-point of the Psalms.
References: See references listed in manuscript no. 1.
- ms_i1 (check the viewerLocated on folio 3r-98r. ), Psalms
- ms_i2 (check the viewerLocated on folio 98v-109r. ), Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments (With Musical Notations)
- ms_i3 (check the viewerLocated on folio 109r-114v. ), Song of Songs (With Musical Notations)
- ms_i4 (check the viewerLocated on folio 115r-123v. ), Praise of Mary (Wəddase Maryam)
- ms_i5 (check the viewerLocated on folio 123v-127v. ), Gate of Light
- ms_i6 (check the viewerLocated on folio 115rv. ), Monday
- ms_i7 (check the viewerLocated on folio 115v-117r. ), Tuesday
- ms_i8 (check the viewerLocated on folio 117r-118v. ), Wednesday
- ms_i9 (check the viewerLocated on folio 118v-120v. ), Thursday
- ms_i10 (check the viewerLocated on folio 120v-121v. ), Friday
- ms_i11 (check the viewerLocated on folio 121v-122v. ), Saturday
- ms_i12 (check the viewerLocated on folio 122v-123v. ), Sunday
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻPhiladelphia, Princeton University Library, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 40ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2022-05-05) https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/PULet040 [Accessed: 2024-05-17]
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- Eugenia Sokolinski renamed on 5.5.2022
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created XML record from https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0776/cPRet00596.xml . See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1181. on 17.11.2016
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor