Farfel Notebook 09: Leaves 572-618

597

Bill Marger St. Petersburg, FL April '04 $24.00

Ethiopian manuscript on thick vellum. 7 x 7 1/2 inches. Original prickings + ruling visible.

See #638

Psalter (Ge'ez title, Mazmura Dawit) or Psalms of David, usually called a "Dawit" in Ethiopian tradition. The Psalter in Ethiopia usually contains other texts in addition to the Psalms, namely the Canticles of the Prophets (Mazmura Nabiyyat) + the Praises of Mary (Weddase Maryam) The Psalter is one of the commenest Ethiopian manuscript texts.

Written in the Ge'ez language, in a single column on 19 scared lines in black ink c red headings. 2 lines along upper margin in smaller neat hand in black ink on the recto.

latter half of the 18th C or 1st part of the 19th C

recto --> end of Psalm 103/104 + the opening of Psalm 104/105* (in red) verso --> continuation of Psalm 104/105. * in the Western Bible recension.

Ethiopic is a Semitic language basically not very different from Arabic. In 2 respects, however, Ethiopic script is unique in the Semitic family: it is written from left to right (perhaps, an indication that this script was introduced c Christianity, by Greeks) and it is not purely consonantal, but shows vowel sounds by attaching various dashes + loops to one corner or another of the letters, so becoming not an alphabet, but a syllabary of 287 characters including numerals + Amharic modifications.

- Ge'ez, like Syriac + Coptic, + like Latin in the Roman Catholic world, survives as a Church language.

The Ethiopic liturgical language, Ge'ez was drived from one of the non-Arabic Semitic languages of South Arabia. Its alphabet is the only Semitic alphabet to indicate vowels, + the system by which it does this is elsewhere found only in the various writing systems of India - further evidence of the extent to which ideas as well as spices were trafficked across the Indian Ocean.

The Psalms in Ethiopic were 1st printed in 1513 by Marcellus Silber for Potken in Rome, + reprinted in Cologne but it was the ed. Frankfurt 1701 (O+M3572) which established a scholarly text.

598 Michael Janiel (Dallasarts) Richardson, TX April '04 $45.00

(1221-1274) Bonaventura, S. (pseudo) 4^o

See #380 #266

Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Hagenau Heinrich Gran, 9 Jan. 1496. Ref: Goff B-952. HC 3520 Pell 2656 Palain 807 BMC II 684, GW 4815 Copy: HEHL, Stanford (KA 1496 B66)

a-z8; A-K^8 L^10; MN^6 286 leaves, the last blank 2 col 2^6: 44 lines, head-line + marginal section letters, 157 (167) x 101 (110) mm. Types: 155 tittle, headings, headlines (Serman numbers) 72 text. Capital spaces.

Stanford copy (no rubrication)

a^2 Sermons de De Adventu Sermo p^1 mus Z^8 Sermo CXXX A^1 Sermones de sanctis I --> LIIII (to H^8) I^1 Sermones sancti I --> XVI (to L^10) my leaf M^1 (of 6) Registru alpha. --end of volume.

Not only most of the genuine works of the Doctor seraphicus were printed + repeatedly reprinted before 1500, but his name was one of the most frequently applied to works written by others. It would almost seem as if 'Bonaventura' came to be regarded as convient label to designate a certain type of text, rather than as assention of authorship.

my leaf M^1 (of 6). HEHL #85308 no sub.

599 Tuscany Books Torance, CA June '04 $29.00

Petrus Tartaretus (d. 1522) Expositio in summulas Petri Hispani 4^o Paris: Andre Bocard, 4 Nov. 1494. Ref: H. 15333 Goff T-32. Madsen 3827. Butler 1660. Gunther (Leipzig) 2218. Copy: Newberry L., Kongelige Bibliotek (N. 8155.5)

bifolium. 2 columns. woodcuts. 150 (156) x 95mm.

De secuda figura 7 mois eius Tractatus quartus De sillogismis Tractatus quartus g2

Types: 92G text, 64G commentary

Petri Taterti Petrus Tartaretus. (Tateretus, Tahereteus, Tataretus) French phiolosopher + theologian. Studied +, taught in Paris where in 1484 he was magister artium, 1490/91 rector, from 1496 licentiatus theologae, 1500 magister theologiae. He was an esteemed Scotist. Author of comments logical, philosophical + theological, strongly inspired by Duns Scot + the parisian scotism of the 15th C. After his death Tartaretus' work knew a certain eclipse before being republished massively by the Franciscains (especially Italian) during the lasting influence into the 17th C. During the establishment of Wittenberger Univ. (1502/3) Friedrich III of Saxony orded. that Tartaretus -->