Add. 1005 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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Summary of Contents: A codex containing a Psalter, Canticles, and the Song of Songs. Psalm 150 is followed by doxology with musical notation.

Title: Ethiopic alphabet

Language(s): Geez

F. 1r contains part of the Ethiopic Alphabet written upsidedown in a crude hand.

2r-127v

Title: Psalms

Language(s): Geez

Pss 15, 16, 36, 58, 114-116, 125-127, 148, 150 are incorrectly numbered. Psalm 118 is unnumbered as usual. Pss 148-150 contain musical notation.

128r-141r

Title: Canticles

Language(s): Geez

131v-138v

Title: Song of Songs

Language(s): Geez

139r-148v

Title: Wəddase Maryam

Language(s): Geez

139r-154v

Title: The General Wəddase Maryam

Language(s): Geez

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 148 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 18.1 × 15.6 cm.

Layout

18-19 lines per leaf

Hand(s)

Bold but poor with many corrections.

Binding

Plain boards, both cracked and crudely sewn.

History

Origin: 18th cent. CE; Ethiopia.

Provenance and Acquisition

Ethiopia

No aquisition information available.

Record Sources

Description based on Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard.Cambridge University Press.1961

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact Cambridge University Library Admissions. Contact near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript

Bibliography

Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright ; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard., Ullendorff, Edward (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1961)

Funding of Cataloguing

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