University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 205

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS758

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 205

Title:

Inni della Beata Vergine Maria.

Place:

Ethiopia

Ethiopia TGN

Date:

[approximately 1600-1899]

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ethiopic

Ge'ez WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 54 leaves : parchment ; 95 x 72 mm bound to 100 x 80 mm

Former Owner(s):

Alkusei, Thomas

Thomas Alkusei WIKIDATA

Klein, Eugène, 1898-

Eugène Klein WIKIDATA

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex
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.
Collation: Parchment, i (later paper) + 54 + i (later paper); 1-6⁸ 7⁸(-6, 7).
Origin: Written in Ethiopia in the 17th or 18th century, with 19th-century additions (Marie-Laure Derat, IMAF, CNRS).
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.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Ethiopic

hymns

Hymns, Ethiopic

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9968531643503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x63b83r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania