Shelfmark

3866

Owning institution

Biblioteca Palatina, Parma

Typology

Codex

Copying date

19th century, dated on a paleographical basis.

Title

Dawit (Psalter)

Subject

Old Testament, Poetry

Language

Gǝʿǝz

Short description of the content

Ff. 1r–135va: Dawit (Psalter)

1. Ff. 1r–105v: Mäzmurä Dawit (“Psalms of David”).

2. Ff. 106r–117v: Mäḥalǝyä näbiyat (“Canticles of the Prophets”);

3. Ff. 117v –124r: Mäḥalǝyä mäḥalǝy (“Song of Songs”);

4. Ff. 12ra–132rb: Wǝddase Maryam (“Praise of Mary”);

5. Ff. 132rb–135va: Anqäṣä bǝrhan (“Gate of Light”).

Writing material

Sheep parchment

Outer size (included the binding)

202 x 186 x 62 mm

Outer size of the textblock

200 x 186 x 57 mm

Number of folia

135

Blank folia

–

Binding

Two wooden boards. Four sewing stations.

Sewing

Two S-twisted threads (each thread is Z-twisted) of animal origin.

Sewing pattern

Bozzacchi A

Slip case

–

Quires

18 (16 + 1 initial and 1 final protective quires)

Quire marks

–

Layout

1) Ff. 1r–119v: 1 column.

2) Ff. 119va–134vb: 2 columns.

Number of lines per column

25–26

Ruling

Blind ruling, from the flesh side to the hair side.

Lines are written above the ruling.

Ruling pattern

Nosnitsin 1

Scribe

Unknown

Colophon

–

Additional notes

1. F. 124va: note written in a recent hand on a text previously erased. The note is provided with interlineal musical notation and is partly illegible due to faded ink. Incipit: አድባረ[፡] ድሁሀን፡ ይሰመይ[፡] ነፋሳቲሆሙ፡ ለጻድቃን፡ ጻድቃን[፡] ውሉደ[፡] ብር[ሃ]ን፡ እለ[፡] ሎሙ[፡] ሕግ፡ ወሎሙሰ፡.

Decoration

–

State of preservation of the binding

Mediocre.

State of preservation of the textblock

Defective.

Provenance and history

Unknown provenance.