04815ntm a2200553 a 4500 9979215021803681 20260609152154.0 230818q18001914et a 000 0 gez d (OCoLC)on1551449676 (OCoLC)1551449676 PAU eng PAU amremm Ms. Codex 2338 YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50076393 http://viaf.org/viaf/125463366 [Ethiopian liturgical manuscript]. [Ethiopia], [before 1914] 131 leaves : parchment ; 165 x 115 (120 x 90) mm bound to 170 x 115 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Ms. codex. Manuscript copy of the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, with a cross in square diagram (p. 255). Ethiopic. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, 131; 1⁴⁻¹(-2) 2-13¹⁰ 14⁸: [i-vi, 1-256], modern pagination in pencil, upper center. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 23 lines; ruled in hard point with vertical bounding lines; pricking visible in outer margins throughout and in upper and lower margins occasionally. Script: Written in Ge'ez (or Ethiopic) script. Decoration: Cross in square diagram in red and black ink (p. 255); text in black and red ink throughout. Binding: Ethiopian or Coptic binding with wooden covers, chain stitch sewing, and uncovered spine. Repaired since 1985, when the description in the Endowment for Biblical Research catalog noted that the back cover was detached and that a string bundle bookmark, no longer with the manuscript, was attached. Origin: Written in Ethiopia before 1914, probably in the 19th century (Mercer). Gift of Abuna Mātéwos, Metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, to Samuel A. B. Mercer, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament literature at Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1914; Mercer Ms. Eth. 3 (Mercer note in ink, p. i). Gift of Samuel A. B. Mercer to the Zion Research Library (Brookline, Massachusetts; in 1976 renamed the Endowment for Biblical Research), through Marguerite A. Smith, Librarian (Mercer note in ink, p. i); held in that library through at least 1985 (MS 20). Formerly held by the Newberry Library (Chicago) and deaccessioned in the 1990s. Sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2023. Mercer, Samuel A. B. The Ethiopic liturgy: its sources, development, and present form. Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company; London: A. R. Mowbray & Company, 1915. This publication of Mercer's 1914-15 Hale Lectures at the Western Theological Seminary includes a translation and a partial photographic facsimile (p. 34b-106). Manuscripts, sacred and secular : from the collections of the Endowment for Biblical Research and Boston University (Boston: Endowment for Biblical Research, 1985), number 8 (p.5). Ethiopian Liturgical Manuscript (Ms. Codex 2338). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund. YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān Liturgy Texts. codices (bound manuscripts) aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300224200 diagrams aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015387 Liturgical books. rbmscv Manuscripts, Ethiopic 19th century. Manuscripts, Ethiopic 20th century. Mātéwos, Metropolitan of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, approximately 1843-1926, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023070065 http://viaf.org/viaf/186168840327645402908 Mercer, Samuel A. B. (Samuel Alfred Browne), 1880-1969, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83166154 http://viaf.org/viaf/112498864 Endowment for Biblical Research, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85245361 http://viaf.org/viaf/149780209 Newberry Library, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004207 http://viaf.org/viaf/155372052 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. Ms. Codex 2338 9979215021803681 22777731580003681 01UPENN_INST KislakCntr Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2338 available 1 0 scmss 8 1 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund. 22777731580003681 Ms. Codex 2338 KislakCntr scmss