Psalter

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Text 1: ff. 3r-169va: Psalms: Text 2: ff. 169vb-190rb: Canticles of the Prophets: The Prayer of Moses 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Prayer of Hanna, the mother of Samuel, of Hezekiah, king of Judah, of Manasseh “the Prophet”, of Jonah, “the Prophet”, of Daniel “the Prophet”, of the Three Youths (in the oven), of Habbakuk, of Isaiah, of Mary (Magnificat), of Zachariah (Benedictus), of Simeon (Nunc dimittis); Text 3: ff. 190va-199ra: Song of Songs (Mäḫaləyä mä ḫaləy zə-wə᾽ətu zä-Sälomon); Text 4: ff. 199ra,3fb-213va,9: Praise of Mary (Wəddase Maryam); Text 5: ff. 213va,9-220vb,7: Praise and thanksgiving (to Mary) = (Wəddase wä-gənay); Additional texts: Text 6: ff. 220vb,7-end: Eulogy to God for giving (the monks) Brother Ewostatewos Text 7: ff. 221ra,1-226v: A prayer for protection (with the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet)

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Gunda Gunde Manuscripts

Details

Address

Monastery of Gunda Gunde

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Local Identifier

GG-136

Title

ዳዊት - Dawit, on the front cover

Contributors

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

General Note

Notes Time Period 17th century (?) (t

Physical Description Note

Number of folios: 2 (I-II) + 226 + 2 (III-IV); ff. I and I bis (after fol. 2) is a half folio (with a text) from another manuscript, reused here for protection of the added initial quire with miniatures; European foliation; Number of quires: 24; Number of columns of the text: 2, except ff. 184r,1-186r,7, written in one column (part of the prayer of the Three Youths); Number of lines in columns: 16 (in one-column text); 15-17 (in two-column text)

Country

Ethiopia

State/Province

Tigray