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On Elkanah: Text and Manuscripts

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Iste helcana de ysuar per chore descendit et duas habuit uxores, fenennam fecundam et annam sterilem, que , uotum faciens de masculo si deus daret quod faceret nazareum, peperit samuelem , quem obtulit heli in sylo.
This Elkanah descended from Izher through Korah and had two wives, Peninnah who was fertile and Hannah who was barren. But after making an vow that if God gave her a son she would make him a Nazarite, Hannah gave birth to Samuel, who was offered to Eli in Shiloh.

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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)

Iste helcana
de ysuar per cho
re descendit. et
duas habuit uxo
res. fenennam fecundam. et an
nam sterilem. Qui
uotum faciens
de masculo si deus
daret. quod faceret
nazareum pepe
rit samuelem . quem
obtulit hely
in sylo.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Iste helcana de ysuar per
core descendit. et duas habuit
uxores fenennam fecundam et an
nam sterilem. Que uotum faciens
de masculo. si deus daret quod faceret
nazareum peperit samuelem et quem
obtulit samueli in sylo.

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Iste hel
chana de
ysuar per
chore des
cendit. et duas habuit uxores
fenennam fecundam et annam ste
rilem. Que uotum fa
ciens de masculo
si deus daret quod
faceret nazare
um. peperit samu
elem quem obtulit
hely in sylo.

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

Manuscript group GB6

Iste helcana de ysuar
per chore descendit. et duas
habuit uxores fenennam
fecundam. et annam sterilem.
qui uotum faciens de masculo
si deus ei daret. quem
faceret nazare
um! peperit sa
muelem quem
obtulit heli in sylo.


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Citation recommendation

On Elkanah: 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-helcana.

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