- Published / Created:
- [17th century].
- Call Number:
- Ethiopic MSS 5
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- ; Ff. 87rv: Calendar of the monthly feasts
- Description:
- Bound in plain wooden boards; four chain stitches, in leather slip-case, with loops for missing carrying strap. Some holes and tears in parchment stitched back together. Sparse marginalia., Gift of Charles C. Torrey, 1950., In Geʼez or Amharic., Notes: F. i r(ecto): “Miracles of the Virgin” written in a Western hand; F. 12r and passim mention the owner, ገብራ ገላወዴዎስ; Blank: ff. i v(erso)–ii v(erso), the two folios (recto and verso) between numbered folios 52 and 53, 91r–92v., and Two columns (ff. 1r–86v); One column (ff. 87r–90v). 14 lines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethiopic manuscripts. and Miracles.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Miracles of the Saint Mary, Blessed Virgin, and image of Galawedéwos (Claudius)].
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- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Ethiopic MSS 30
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- . 96v: calendar of observation of canon law
- Description:
- 1721–1726 (f. 1r mentions the 7,221st year of creation [=1721], and “the month of February (Yakatit) ... in the time of our King, Bakafa [1721–1730]; f. 19v mentions Abba Petros = Peter VI, 1718–1726, and Abba Krestodolu III, 1720–1735; the overlap between the three dates—king, Coptic Patriarch, and Ethiopian Abuna—is 1721–1726); the colophon itself mentions the eighth year of Bakafa’s reign, i.e., 1729., F. 19v mentions Abba Petros = Peter VI, 1718–1726, and Abba Krestodolu III, 1720–1735. The overlap between the three dates (King and Coptic Patriarch and Ethiopian Abuna) is 1721–1726., In Geʻez., In wooden boards, with four chain stitches, leather bound, two columns, 22-23 lines per page, black and red ink. Fine fabric is visible between the pastedowns of the front and back covers. Double slip mahdar., and Introductory colophon to the manuscript: "In the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, one God. How we remember the calculation of the year of our Lord Jesus Christ since we are in the year of Matthew the Evangelist, may He keep us until the year of Mark (the Evangelist), in the 7,221st year of creation [=1721], since there is no epact for [the ringing of] its bell, the month of February (Yakatit), the fourth day and seventh night, in the time of our King, Bakafa [1721-1730], in the eighth year after he became king, this book was written." [Text is damaged.]
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethiopic manuscripts. and Missals--Ethiopia.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Missal].