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On Keturah: Text and Manuscripts

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Hanc cethuram abraham duxit in uxorem, mortua sara ; quidam tamen dicunt eam fuisse agar , que de concubina facta est uxor, quod sonat interpretatio, nam cethura dicitur copulata.
This Keturah was taken by Abraham as his wife after the death of Sarah. However, some say that she was Hagar, the concubine who became his wife. This is an interpretation based on sound, since Keturah means "coupled".

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Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.

Version

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Hanc cethuram abraham duxit in uxorem mor
tua sara. Quidam t ame n dicunt eam fuisse agar
que de concubina facta est uxor. Quod sonat
interpretatio.
Nam ce
thra dicitur
copula
ta.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Hanc cethuram abraham duxit
in uxorem mortua sara. Quidam tamen dicunt eam fuisse agar
que de concubina facta est uxor. Quod sonat interpretatio nam
Nam cethura dicitur copulata.

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Hanc cethuram abrahaam duxit in uxo
rem mortua sara. Quidam tamen dicunt
eam fuisse agar. que de concubina
facta est uxor. Quod sonat
interpretacio. Nam ce
thura dicitur
copulata.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Hanc cethuram abraham duxit in uxorem mortua sara. Quidam tamen dicunt eam fuisse agar
que de concubina facta est uxor quod sonat interpretatio. Nam cethura dicitur copu
lata.


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Citation recommendation

On Keturah: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-cethura.

Credits

  • Data modeling, data curation and web design: Jakob Sonnberger
  • Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
  • Mercator Fellows: Laura Cleaver and Franz Fischer