[Psalter].
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Description
- Title
- [Psalter].
- Published / Created
- [20th century]
- Publication Place
- [Ethiopia],
- Abstract
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Ff. 1r-122r. Psalter, Dawit, ዳዊት: Ff. 1r–109v: Psalms of David, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት; Psalm 77 does not mark the midpoint; Psalm 119 identifies the spiritual meaning of the Hebrew letters with the simple modern system; Psalm 151 contains the short version; ff. 110r–121r: Biblical Canticles, መሓልየ ነቢያት; ff. 135v–143r: Song of Songs, መኃልየ መኃልይ, common version; ff. 143r–151v: Praises of Mary, ውዳሴ ማርያም, arranged for the days of the week: Monday (f. 143r), Tuesday (f. 144r), Wednesday (f. 145r), Thursday (f. 147r), Friday (f. 148v), Saturday (f. 149v), Sunday (f. 150v); ff. 151v–154v: Gate of Light, አንቀጸ ብርሃን.
Illuminations and Pictures: f. i r(ecto): clippings of photographs from a Swedish magazine of braided hair of three Ethiopian women; f. ii r (ecto): photograph of the entrance up the rope to Dabra Damo; f. ii v (erso): picture of Ethiopians gathered for a meal with the following caption: “Traditional dinner of fiery stew and barley beer spreads before the author, who was invited to the home of a family in Lalibela, kneeling hostess serves the meal. Musicians play washint and masinko, a flute and one-stringed violin. An isolated village of rock-hewn churches, Lalibela is one of Ethiopia’s holiest places.”
Manuscript in an unidentified hand of the 20th century, containing psalter, prayers, and songs from the Old Testament.
- Description
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Accompanied by ceremonial horsehair whisk.
Between wooden boards with four chain stitches. One column (ff.1r-143r); two columns (ff.143r-154v), 23 lines per page. In black and red ink. Mahdar case.
Copying of this book was completed on the 30th of Ḫedar.
Gift of Viletta Hutchinson.
In Geʻez. - Extent
- ii, 155 ff : on parchment ; 190 mm x 120 mm
- Language
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Geez
Hebrew
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Ethiopic MSS 26
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
-
Artifacts
Manuscripts, Ethiopic--Ethiopia--20th century. - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic)
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Bible.--Psalms.--Geʻez.
Ethiopic manuscripts.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
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For Gate of Light see, Me‘erāf I 69–75 and II 279–83 and Lash, “Gate of Light.”
For Praises of Mary see Fries, Weddâsê Mârjâm; Me‘erāf I 76–91 and II 284–96; and Legend 279–96.
For Psalms, see Hiob Ludolf, Psalterium Davidis Aethiopice et Latine, 1701.
For Song of Songs, see Hugh Craswall Gleave, The Ethiopic Version of the Songs of Songs, Critically edited (London: Taylor’s Foreign Press, 1951). See also Sebastian Euringer, translator “Ein Äthiopischer Scholienkommentar zum Hohenleid, herausgegeben und űbersetzt” 1. Biblica 18:3 (1937) 257 –276; 2. Biblica 18:3 (1937) 369–382; and Sebastian Euringer, “Schöpferische Exegese im äthiopischen Hohenliede,” Biblica 17:3 (1936) 327–44; Biblica 17:4 (1936) 479–500; Biblica 20:1 (1939) 27–37.
Psalter. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13215328
- Object ID (OID)
- 2012116