Ms. 62 Māsehafā Ziq
Item Overview
- Title
- Ms. 62 Māsehafā Ziq
- Alternative title
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The Book of Ziq
መጽሐፈ ዚቅ - Uniform title
- Church Hymns
- Date Created
- 19th c.
- Date
- 1800/1899
- Place of Origin
- Ethiopia (probably Gondar)
- Language
- Ethiopic
- Collection
- Ethiopic Manuscripts
Notes
- Description
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The text is in black ink. The name of each greeting ('sālamta') and saints' names are in red ink.
Layout: One column per page, fifteen lines of text per page.
Musical notations throughout, above each line of the hymn.
The manuscript is composed of seventeen quires of eight leaves.
Illustrations: None. - Table of contents
- Authored by various Ethiopian scholars, mostly from the Gondar region. The hymns are sung following the 'malek' image assigned to be sung that day. Based on this interpretation, some scholars say that "Ziq" means "below," in Amharic "'zeq belo." Dillmann suggested that "ziq" derived from "zarziq," which means "condensed or collected works," see Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 284 Pages
- Dimensions
- 143 mm x 105 mm x 75 mm
- Support
- Vellum and wooden board
- Binding note
- Wooden board.
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- Ms. 62
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0009pjcf
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights contact
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4972