05.12.2025 Presentazione del volume di Lorenzo Pubblici, La Rus’ di Kiev. Un crocevia tra Europa e Asia nel Medioevo Discutono con l’autore Michele Bernardini, Marcello Garzaniti e Lapo Sestan
The boards and the spine cover are missing. Four sewing stations
Sewing
Two S-twisted threads (each thread is Z-twisted) of animal origin
Sewing pattern
Bozzacchi A1
Slip case (maḫdär)
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Quires
5 (1 initial protective quire + 4)
Quire marks
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Layout
2 columns
Number of lines per column
20–22
Ruling
Blind ruling, from outside to inside. Lines are written above the ruling
Ruling pattern
Nosnitsin 1
Scribe
Unknown
Colophon
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Additional notes
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Decoration
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State of preservation of the binding
Defective
State of preservation of the textblock
Mediocre
Provenance and history
The manuscript is mentioned by Antonio Mordini in the inventory list of the books of the monastic collection of Gundä Gunde (Mordini, A., 1953. ‘Il convento di Gunde Gundiè’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 12, 29–70, p. 54 n. 13).
The manuscript was purchased by Mordini in the early 1940s and became part of his private collection in Barga (Lucca). In 1994 the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage bought the collection, which until then had remained the property of the family of Antonio Mordini, who had died in 1975. The collection then entered the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma (cp. Fiaccadori, G., 1995, ‘I manoscritti etiopici di Antonio Mordini’. Malacoda 57 (1995), 24–27)