Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add. 1489 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

A codex containing a Psalter, Canticles, the Song of Songs, and Ethiopian hymans.

3r-125r
Title: Psalms
Language(s): Geez

Pss 52-61, 71-73, 76-79, 81-87, 90, 98-100, 110-116, 119-125, 127-140, and 150 are incorrectly numbered. Pss 1, 2, 12, 39-51, 68-70, 74, 75, 80, 88, 107, 118 (as usual), and 126 unnumbered.

125v-137r
Title: Canticles
Language(s): Geez
137r-145r
Language(s): Geez
145v-157r
Language(s): Geez
157r-165r
Language(s): Geez

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 164 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 15.6 × 11.1 cm.

Layout

20 lines per leaf

Hand(s)

Small and poor.

Binding

Unbound.

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

CUL


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