Ethiopian Homilies [139]

Title: Ethiopian Homilies [139]
LC Subject: Manuscripts, Ethiopic Bible--Paraphrases Illumination of books and manuscripts
Item Locator: Eugene, Oregon: Knight Library, Special Collections & University Archives, MS 029.
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Description: This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles. Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering. Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan. Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure. Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership. Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale. Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen. Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter. Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
Provenance: Kidana Maryam/Walda Maryam as original patron fesha krestos, patromija, Walda Rufa'el, Tsadala Maryam to Kidana Maryam. King Theodore of Abyssinia to Col. Gally-Passebosc, to Bibliotheque Nationale. It is noted in Catalogs of Maisonnelle, Paris(1881-82), to Wilberforce Eames. Edward Sanford Burgess purchased through the Anderson Sale, 1907.
Work Type: manuscripts (documents)
Date: 1650/1860
Identifier: Ms029_139
Item Locator: Ms 029
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Use Restrictions: Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Material: parchment
Set: University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
Institution: University of Oregon
Layout: 140 leaves : illustrations : 205 x 185 mm, bound to 215 x 195 mm 2 columns of 16-23 lines within an area 124 x 142 mm: Part I: 22-27; II: 16; III; 20. Visible pricking in margins and ruling with point throughout.