Princeton University, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 18

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26378

Shelfmark:

Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 18

Title:

Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 18: Psalter. Dawit

Psalter

Psalms

Psalms

Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments

Canticles

Song of Songs

Song of Solomon

Praise of Mary (Wəddase Maryam)

Praise of Mary

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Gate of Light (Incomplete At End)

Gate of Light

Place:

Ethiopia

Ethiopia TGN

Date:

late 18th century

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

gez

Ge'ez WIKIDATA

Geez

Ge'ez WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment and Paper Codex.

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: Parchment and Paper Codex.; 9.5 x 8.5 x 6 cm

Note:

Layout: 1 col. [fols. 1r-130v], 22 lines; 2 col. [131r-142v], 21 lines.
Written in black and red ink. No case. Fols. 1v-8v: Blank. Fol. 7rv: Detached from the quire. Leather boards, stitched and open spine. The paper and vellum folios were foliated separately; after the first 10 folios (of paper), the vellum folios begin with 1 again. The paper folios are bla...[text truncated]
Loose folio, a letter that starts without salutation but with a dateline, "Princeton Nov 29 1940," and then states that the book was "Brought from Abyssinia by Professor Littmann and given to me—about 1910. ... Littman said it had recently belonged to a monk and had been in daily use. I now give it to the Epigraphical Museum." It is signed by "Wm. K. Prentice," the professor of...[text truncated]

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Ethiopic

Psalters

Ethiopia

Institutional Record:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xd07gs74n

Holding Institution:

Princeton University