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(0) Introduction
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(1) Paris: Estate of Asselin de Cherville in the French National Library
1.1 Catalogue
Zotenberg, Hermann. Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens (Gheez et Amharique) de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1877:
Source: Digitale Sammlungen
1.2 Manuscripts translated by Abba Abraham (alias Abu Rumi)
The Zotenberg manuscripts nos. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 were all written [i.e., copied] by the same scribe, Wàsef.
Zotenberg, no. 24. Old Ref. Code: Éth 1. I.
- Genesis
- Ezra (fol. 173)
- Nehemia (fol. 215 v.)
- Tobit (fol. 272 v.)
- Judith (fol. 313)
- Esther (fol. 364 v.)
Zotenberg, no. 27. Date: July 1814. Old Ref. Code: Éth. 6. [Not yet digitized]
- Numbers
Zotenberg, no. 28. Dedicated to King Louis XVIII of France in July 1814. Old Ref. Code: Éth. 7. [View online]
- Joshua
Zotenberg, no. 29. Originally bound together with no. 24 [Genesis, Ezra, etc.]. Old Ref. Code: Éth 1. II.
- 1 Samuel
- 2 Samuel (fol. 125 v)
- 1 Kings (fol. 227)
- 2 Kings (fol. 347)
Zotenberg, no. 30. Dedicated to H.E. the Marquis de Rivière, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, in February 1818. Donated to the Nat’l Library by Zotenberg in 1865. Old Ref. Code: Éth 7 bis. [Not yet digitized]
- 1 Chronicles
Zotenberg, no. 31. Old Ref. Code: Éth 141.
- Psalms (1-103) [Gallica (Ge’ez?)]
Zotenberg, no. 168. From the library of the late Mr. d’Avezac; donated to the National Library by Mr. Defrémery. Old Ref. Code: Éth 156.
- Genesis
1.3 Manuscripts not translated by Abba Abraham
Zotenberg, no. 25. Translated by scholars associated with Al-Azhar mosque, sent to the Ministre de l’Intérieur [Home Secretary] by Asselin de Cherville, and dated June 1815. Old Ref. Code: Éth. 4.
- Genesis [Gallica]
Zotenberg, no. 26. Translated by scholars associated with Al-Azhar mosque, sent to the Ministre de l’Intérieur [Home Secretary] by Asselin de Cherville, and dated June 1815. Old Ref. Code: Éth. 5.
- Leviticus [Gallica]
Zotenberg, no. 55. Fragments. [Probably translated by someone other than Abba Abraham.] Old Ref. Code: Éth 140.
- Num 13 (fol. 41)
- Fables attributed to Luqman (fol. 43)
Zotenberg, no. 151. [54 pages; at the beginning of the volume is a prayer in Amharic, written in a different hand.] Old Ref. Code: Eth 142.
- Ge’ez-Amharic vocabulary
(2) Paris: Library of the Institut d’France
Deuteronomy [= Exodus?].
- Signed in 1814 and sent to the “French Institute”, i.e., the Institut de France in Paris. However, the database lists a Book of Exodus, not Deuteronomy. [Ref. Ms 1768; not digitised, yet described in Journal des Savants, 1916, p. 184.]
(3) Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Leviticus and Numbers.
(4) Windsor: Royal Collection Trust
Genesis. Translated by Abba Abraham.
- The manuscript was signed on 1 August 1814 and sent to the Prince Regent (later King George IV). The document is now deposited in the Royal Collection Trust. [RCINs 1005085; view selected pages]
- View accompanying letter to Lord Castlereagh
(5) Cambridge: Bible Society Library
For the Amharic manuscripts located at the Archives of the British and Foreign Bible Society, view
- Abba Abraham’s Bible manuscripts in Cambridge
(6) Location not yet clear
The Book of Exodus.
- The manuscript was sent to Rev. George Cecil Renouard, who returned from Istanbul to Cambridge in 1815. The manuscript is not listed separately in the online databases of The National Archive and Cambridge University.
Judges.
- The manuscript mentioned by Jowett appears to be missing.
Cross-references
» Dehérain, On Asselin de Cherville
» Inventory of (mainly Arabic) manuscripts collected by Asselin de Cherville and sold by his heirs to the French National Library