Ethiopian manuscript missal

Title
Ethiopian manuscript missal
LC Subject
Manuscripts, Ethiopic Missals Liturgies
Item Locator
Eugene, OR, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, MS 105.
Repository
University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Description
Contents: 1. Ff. 3r-5r: Image of Gabriel. -- 2. Ff. 6r-:13v: Prayer of Incense (Published in Ethiopia, Tənśa'e Zä-Guba'e Press, Addis Ababa, 1951 EC). -- 3. Ff. 14r-37v, 44r-170v: Missal; Rebound in some disorder. Office prayers, f. 14r; ordinary of the Mass, f. 44r; Anaphoras of the Apostles, f. 71r; Our Lord Jesus Christ, f. 77v; John Son of Thunder, f. 89r; Our Lady Mary By Cyriacus of Bəhənsa (called here dərsan homily, not akkwätet), f. 92r; the 318 Orthodox Fathers, f. 104r; John Chrysostom, f. 114; Epiphanius, f. 120r; Dioscorus, f. 127v; James of Sarug, f. 130r; Cyril of Alexandria, f. 138r; Athanasius the Apostolic, f. 145r; Gregory of Armenia, f. 156v; Basil, f. 161v. -- 4. Ff. 37v-38v: The litanical hymn to Christ, For the sake of your Trinity. -- 5. Ff. 38v-39v: Litanical hymn to Jesus Christ. -- 6. Ff. 39v-40v: Halleluiatic hymn to the Trinity. EMIP 39, f. 19r. -- 7. Ff. 40v-42v: Hymn to Saint George. -- 8. Ff. 42v-43v and 174r-176v: Hymn to Mary, You are blessed (Chaîne, Répertoire, no. 292. Most of these hymns (from 4 to 8) are part of the Horologium for night hours. -- 9. Ff. 171r-174r Monastic genealogy of the line of Abunä Ewosṭatewos. Cf. C. Conti Rossini, Il Gadla Filpos e Gadla Yohannes di Dabra Bizan, Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche, vol. VIII, ser. 5 (1903), pp. 154-6; and Getatchew Haile, A Fragment on the Monastic Fathers of the Ethiopian Church, Orbis Aethiopicus: Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki (ed. Piotr O. Scholz et al), Albstrat (1992), pp. 231-7. Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 72. Quires: 24 full quires, quires 7 and 10 numbered (as 4 and 1 respectively), 177 folios, 140 x 129 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 2-6, 8, 12-23 balanced; quire 24 adjusted balanced; quires 1, 7, 9-11 unbalanced. Binding: four altered Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards.
Provenance
Copied for Ləssanä Krəstos, ff. 11r, 13v and passim. Note of ownership by a certain church dedicated to Gabriel, partly erased, f. 2v.
Work Type
manuscripts (documents)
Location
Ethiopia
Date
1702/1708
Identifier
Ms105
Item Locator
Ms 105
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
Collection
Format
application/xml
Material
parchment
Set
University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
Primary Set
University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
Institution
University of Oregon
Layout
173 unnumbered leaves; 143 x 130 x 69 mm top margin 15 mm, bottom margin 35 mm, fore edge margin 20 mm, gutter margin 10 mm, ff. 1r-177v two columns, 15 lines. Overlooked words of text are written interlinearly (ff. 39v and 40v); and overlooked lines of text are written interlinearly (ff. 17v and 31r); and in the upper margin with a symbol (+) marking the location where the text is to be inserted (f. 16r, line 11).