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Miniatures: (1) Job and Samuel, Ezra and Ezekiel, fol. 4v; (2) Asaph, Ethan, child of Qore, child of Qore, fol.
Original catalogue wording
Miniatures: (1) Job and Samuel, Ezra and Ezekiel, fol. 4v; (2) Asaph, Ethan, child of Qore, child of Qore, fol. 5v; (3) Daniel and Jeremiah, Gad and Nathan, Enoch and Elijah, Elisha and Joshua the Judge, Simeon and Isaiah; Zerubbabel (ዘሩ{n.l.}ል።) and the second Ezra, fol. 6r; (4) King David, fol. 6v; (5) Moses and Aaron, fol. 126r; (6) King Solomon, fol. 138v; (7) Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob, fol. 146v; (8) St Matthias and St Thaddeus, St Jacob, son of Alphaeus, and St Jacob, son of Zebedee, St Nathanael (ና{n.l.}ኤል ) and St Luke, St Philemon and St Clement, St Joseph and St Nicodemus, St Prochorus and St Barnabas, fol. 147r; (9) Jesus kissing St John the Disciple next to St Michael the Archangel, St Peter and St Paul, St John the Baptist and St Andrew the Apostle, St Jacob, brother of the Lord, and St Mark, St Bartholomew and St Matthew, St Thomas and St Philip, fol. 147v. Headpieces: fols 1r, 1v, 4v, 7r, 8r (bis), 8v, 9r, 9v, 10v, etc. (headpieces appear profusely throughout Unit 1; here, only the ten first have been listed); fols 150r, 151va, 156ra, 156vb, 158va, 160rb, 162va, 164ra.
Miniature, headpiece and illuminated-table inventories transcribed from the peer-reviewed handlist; only the field labels in front of them are added here.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 01Miniatures: (1) Job and Samuel, Ezra and Ezekiel, fol. 4v; (2) Asaph, Ethan, child of Qore, child of Qore, fol. 5v; (3) Daniel and Jeremiah, Gad and Nathan, Enoch and Elijah, Elisha and Joshua the Judge, Simeon and Isaiah; Zerubbabel (ዘሩ{n.l.}ል።) and the second Ezra, fol. 6r; (4) King David, fol. 6v; (5) Moses and Aaron, fol. 126r; (6) King Solomon, fol. 138v; (7) Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob, fol. 146v; (8) St Matthias and St Thaddeus, St Jacob, son of Alphaeus, and St Jacob, son of Zebedee, St Nathanael (ና{n.l.}ኤል ) and St Luke, St Philemon and St Clement, St Joseph and St Nicodemus, St Prochorus and St Barnabas, fol. 147r; (9) Jesus kissing St John the Disciple next to St Michael the Archangel, St Peter and St Paul, St John the Baptist and St Andrew the Apostle, St Jacob, brother of the Lord, and St Mark, St Bartholomew and St Matthew, St Thomas and St Philip, fol. 147v.
Handlist field transcribed without geographic or stylistic inference.
- 02Headpieces: fols 1r, 1v, 4v, 7r, 8r (bis), 8v, 9r, 9v, 10v, etc. (headpieces appear profusely throughout Unit 1; here, only the ten first have been listed); fols 150r, 151va, 156ra, 156vb, 158va, 160rb, 162va, 164ra.
Handlist field transcribed without geographic or stylistic inference.
- Source date
- 1450–1500 (palaeography, visual evidence, Units 1–2).
- Date evidence
- Dating and evidence qualifiers transcribed from the peer-reviewed handlist.
- Holding institution
- Oxford, Bodleian Libraries
- Shelfmark
- Aeth. d. 19
- Catalogue source
- Karlsson, Gnisci & Dege-Müller handlist (Aethiopica 26)
- Source record
- Jonas Karlsson, Jacopo Gnisci, and Sophia Dege-Müller, Aethiopica 26 (2023), 159–225, handlist XL