Details

Subjects:

Hymns, Ethiopic.

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, Ethiopic.

Language:

Ethiopic.

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. f.2r-7r: Hymns in honor of the Virgin Mary and Saint Gabra Manfas Qeddus
2. f.9r-40v: Weddasse Maryam (Praise of Mary) for the days of the week
3. f.41r-48v: Anqasa Behar (Gate of Light), hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary to be read on Sunday
4. f.49r-54v: Hymns in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Notes:

Ms. codex
Collation: Parchment, i (later paper) + 54 + i (later paper); 1-6⁸ 7⁸(-6, 7).
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).
Binding: Leather, gilt-tooled, gilt spine with title Inni della BV Maria.
Origin: Written in Ethiopia in the 17th or 18th century, with 19th-century additions (Marie-Laure Derat, IMAF, CNRS).

Penn 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.

Contributor:

Alkusei, Thomas, former owner.
Klein, Eugène, 1898- former owner.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

OCLC:

1281574819