Ethiopian manuscript missal [001]
- Description:
- 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., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Binding: four altered Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards., and 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.
- Subject:
- Missals, Manuscripts, Ethiopic, and Liturgies
- Date:
- 1702/1708
- License:
- Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Rights Holder:
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Rights:
- No Copyright - United States
- 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.
- Title:
- Ethiopian manuscript missal [001]
- Language:
- Geez [gez]
- Provenance:
- Copied for Ləssanä Krəstos, ff. 11r, 13v and passim. Note of ownership by a certain church dedicated to Gabriel, partly erased, f. 2v.
- Media:
- Image
- Work Type:
- manuscripts (documents)
- Collections:
- University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Location:
- Ethiopia
- Repository:
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives