New work record for Vita of Zenobius

[DariaElagina]

Dear colleagues,

MS BL, Or. 689, fols. 70v-73v witnesses a Vita of Zenobius and Zenobia, as a part of Gadla samāʿtāt collection: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_689_fs001r# The link to the description by Wright is here: https://archive.org/details/catalogueofethio00brituoft/page/160/mode/2up The same work appears to be also transmitted in https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/ESum018/main (n. 14). I could not find an entry for this work in the DB, maybe I have overlooked it. I would be grateful for a short cross-check. In case that the work record does not exist, I would like to create a work record for it. @thea-m @DenisNosnitsin1970 @eu-genia

[DenisNosnitsin1970]

If you do not find it... Probably it is not there.

[eu-genia]

Please do, I am supposed to work through the list of GS works but I have not done this one yet. Here is for the content of the record, from the compilation by Alessandro, who should be also mentioned then

Zinobis e Zänobya – 6 (o 7) Ḫedār / 9 Ṭeqemt

GS (11 mss.) BL Or. 687-688 = BLW 258: 15 (XVIII s.): ff. 79va-81rc (f. 79v: 6 Ḫedār); BL Or. 689 = BLW 253: 14 (XV s.): ff. 70va-73va (f. 70v: 7 Ḫedār); BNA 110: 22 = BNAC 110: 19 = BNACR 164: 19 (XVIII s.): ff. 163r-165r (7 Ḫedār); EMML 1479: 17 (1459-60): ff. 117ra-119v (f. 117r: 7 Ḫedār); EMML 1766: 8 (XIV-XV s.): ff. 81ra-84vb (f. 81r: 9 Ṭeqemt); EMML 2514: 11 (1382-88): ff. 53ra-55ra (f. 53r: 7 Ḫedār); EMML "Martyrdom of Zenobius [Zēnobis], and his mother Zenobia [Zēnobeyā] […] በመዋዕለ፡ መንግሥቱ፡ ለአጕስጦስ፡ ወበመዋዕለ፡ እኁሁ፡ ቀላውድዮስ፡ ቄሳር፡ በመልእክናሁ፡ ለሉቅያኖስ፡ በብሔረ፡ ኤጌዎን፡ በውእቱ፡ መዋዕል፡ ኮነ፡ ስደተ፡ ክርስቲያን፡ …"; EMML 6903: 12 (XV s.): ff. 67va-70r (f. 67v: 9 Ḫedār); EMML 6951: 12 (XV s.): ff. 61va-63vb (f. 61v: 7 Ḫedār); EMML 6965: 12 (XIV s.): ff. 64ra-66va (f. 64r: 7 Ḫedār); Ṭānāsee 121 = Dāgā Esṭifānos 10: 12 (1416): A: III: 1: ff. 71ra-73rb (f. 71r: 7 Ḫedār); Dabra Libānos (XV s.) 14; Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin), Hs. or. 9486 = ÄHS num. 175, Fragment Aeth. 2, Pri-vatbesitz E. Hammerschmidt: 1 (XIV s.): f. 1ra-vb (framm.): "Aus der Vita des hl. Zenobius und seiner Mutter, der hl. Zenobia"; ÄHS p. 379 "Das Fragment gehört sicher zu Fragment Aeth. 1 = o. Hs. 175 = 378 f.: aus dem Sammelwerk: ገድለ፡ ሰማዕታት። [= Vita der Märtyrer]".

Arabo GCAL I.527; II.504.

[eu-genia]

BTW We should maybe also decide in general of a more standardyzed main title for the GS texts

• [ ] Vita

• [ ] Martyrium

• [ ] Martyrdom

• [ ] Passio

[DariaElagina]

Thank you, @eu-genia , I will do it! Concerning the title, I do not consider myself the most qualified one for such a decision.

[DariaElagina]

Dear @eu-genia , how should I credit the compilation by Alessandro? Is there any bibliographic information? Should I list all the manuscripts as witnesses in the work record? Thank you!

[eu-genia]

Maybe add simply a change element that he provided the data; the ms is unpublished. I think it could be good to list them, yes, also with the date, as it is interesting that there is no unique dies natalis

[DariaElagina]

ok! thank you!

[DariaElagina]

Sorry, I have checked Graf (cited above) for possible further information, but I do not find the information on this particular text. Could someone be so kind to cross-check?

[eu-genia]

very strange, i cannot find any of them in Graf, not even in the index... leave it then... This Russian article https://www.pravenc.ru/text/199829.html seems well informed and does not list Graf among the sources (while it does the Ethiopic Synaxarion, with a reference)