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HMML Reading Room Record:
https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/203110

Institution:
HMML
HMML Project Number:
EMML 1275
Country:
Ethiopia
City:
Dabra Libānos
Repository:
Private Library
ShelfMark:
na
Folio:
170 + 2 ff.,
Bibliography:
Haile, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 4 p. 276
Notes:
F. 1ab: A fragment of the [Fetha nagaśt]. F. 61a: A note on the end of the Fast of Lent, which is also from the [Fetha nagaśt].
Provenance:
In Private Library of Mammerē Ṭebabu Asnāqa Asnāqa when filmed.
Reproduction:
Ff. 21b-22a, 60b-61a, 82b-83a, 115b-116a, 136b-137a and 138b-139a filmed twice.

Manuscript Part I

Folio:
170 + 2 ff.,
Outer Dimensions:
28.5 x 24.5 cm.
Country:
Ethiopia
Region:
Shoa
City:
Dabra Libānos
Date:
20th century
Year Month Day:
1953 March 5
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
Illuminations, f. 77a. Decorative design: ff. 2a, 21a, 32a, 39a, 46b, 51b, 53a, 58a, 60b, 65b, 70b, 72b, 75b and 100b.
Notes:
date in colophon, f. 164a.
Native Date:
yakkātit 26, 1945 EC

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 2a-165a
Supplied Title:
The Code of Kings [Fetha nagaśt]
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 2a-5b
Supplied Title:
Introduction
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 5b-6a
Supplied Title:
Index of Articles.
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 6a-76b
Supplied Title:
Ecclesiastical Law: Articles 1-22.
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 77a-161a
Supplied Title:
Civil Laws: Artifcles 23-51.
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 161a-164a
Supplied Title:
Supplimentary chapter on the Law of Inheritance.
Language(s):
Ge'ez

Manuscript Text

Folio:
Ff. 164b-165a
Supplied Title:
Table of contents.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
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