Haile, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 4 p. 612
Notes:
Stamp of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, ff. 1a and 84.
Provenance:
In Institute of Ethiopian Studies when filmed.
Physical Issues:
Photocopy
Reproduction:
F. 20 filmed twice.
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
84 + 1 ff.,
Outer Dimensions:
33 x 20.5 cm.,
Country:
Ethiopia
Region:
Shoa
City:
Addis Ababa
Date:
20th century
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1-84
Supplied Title:
A collection of [Asmāt] prayers and medical cures ().
Language(s):
Amharic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 2-26
Supplied Title:
121 numbered [asmāt] prayers and medical cures called "The Book of Medicine" [Maṣḥafa Mahānit].
Language(s):
Amharic; Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
The prescriptions are in Amharic.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 27-43
Supplied Title:
A collection of [asmāt] prayers: "for commerce" (ṣalota śit wa-taasāyato)[sic], "against an enemy" [madafena (sic) zar] "love" [mastaāqer], " successful marriage" [la-gābeccā], "against wild animals" [mastādert], (more)
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
(cont) making money [maftehē habt wa-meshafa newāy], "for spoiling (the enemy's) brewery" [la-tagg la-tallā mātfiuā] "for (erection of ) penis" [la-eskit] etc.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 43-58
Supplied Title:
Divination and future telling. As in [Awda nagaśt] or "The Cycle of kings".
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 43-47
Supplied Title:
Divination and future telling of a person by adding the number assigned to the letters of his name and his mother. The cycle is 26, 26 being the number of leters in the Ge'ez alphabet excluding [p].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 48-58
Supplied Title:
Various [hassāb]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 48
Supplied Title:
The Guardian angels of the days of the week
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 48
Supplied Title:
Argument [hassāba nagar]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 49
Supplied Title:
Conception [hassāba zens]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Date of dying [hassāba mawit]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Judgment [hassāba feth]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Campaign [hassāba zamācā]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Being sick in a certain month
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Place [hassāba adbār]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 51
Supplied Title:
Palace [hassāba bēta neguś]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 52
Supplied Title:
Commerce (?) [śayet --- ]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 52
Supplied Title:
Litigation [mugget]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 52
Supplied Title:
Marriage [gābeccā]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 53
Supplied Title:
Place [qabalē]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 53
Supplied Title:
Imprisonment [hassāba eśśerāt].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 55
Supplied Title:
Litigation [hassāba kerekker wa-mugget]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 55
Supplied Title:
Trouble [hassāba seqāy]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 56
Supplied Title:
Getting money [za-yehub wa-yebub (sic)]
Status Of Text:
iFf. 56-58: insufficiently legible.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 58
Supplied Title:
Rain [hassāba zenām]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Margins of ff. 50, 53. 54 and ff. 58-66
Supplied Title:
A collection of short [asmāt] prayers for different purposes including black magic.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 67-74
Supplied Title:
A collection of [asmāt] prayers mostly for drowning demons arranged for the days of the week; each day's pryaer accompanied by a diagram of a [talsam]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff.67-68
Supplied Title:
Monday: 1) Prayer about the angel of death [salot ba'enta mal'aka mot].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 68-69
Supplied Title:
Tuesday:
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 68
Supplied Title:
1) Prayer for drowning demons
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 68
Supplied Title:
2) prayer for drowning demons.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 69-70
Supplied Title:
Wednesday
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 69
Supplied Title:
Prayer for drowning demons.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 70
Supplied Title:
Thursday
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 70
Supplied Title:
1) Prayer for drowning demons
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 70-71
Supplied Title:
Friday
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 70
Supplied Title:
1) Prayer for drowning demons.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 71-72
Supplied Title:
Saturday (not indicated)
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 71
Supplied Title:
Prayer for drowning demons
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 72-74
Supplied Title:
Sunday
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 72
Supplied Title:
1. Prayer for drowning demons.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 73
Supplied Title:
2. Prayer against pain caused yb [bāryā] and [lēgēwon]
