Haile, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 4 p. 627
Notes:
Unidentified Stamp, f. 193b.
Provenance:
Bought by Mammerē Gabra Māryām in Hośaā'nā in 1940 E.C. ( = 1957/8 A.D.). In Institute of Ethiopian Studies when filmed.
Reproduction:
F. 2b blank. Ff. 74b-75a and 159b-160a filmed twice.
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
198 ff.,
Outer Dimensions:
23.5 x 18 cm.,
Country:
Ethiopia
Region:
Shoa
City:
Addis Ababa
Date:
19th century
Year Month Day:
1885/6 A.D
Support:
Parchment
Native Date:
7378 AM /1878 EC
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 3a-197a
Supplied Title:
Treatise on theology called here [Ammestu a'emāda mestir] "The Five Pillars of Mystery" but also includes: "Beauty of the Creation" [śena fetrat], " The Passion of Christ' [ḥemāmāta Masqal] and "Amharic Treatise on Computus" [Marha 'ewwer or Bāhra hassāb]
Language(s):
Amharic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 3a-8a
Supplied Title:
Introduction
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 8b-30
Supplied Title:
Mystery of the Trinity [Mestira Śellāsē]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 8b-20a
Supplied Title:
On the Trinity
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 20a-30a
Supplied Title:
On the Unity
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 30b-99a
Supplied Title:
Beauty of the Creation [śena fetrat].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Divided as follows: Ff. 30b-32a, Introduction; Ff. 32a-47b, Sunday; Ff. 47b-53b, Monday; Ff. 53b-61a, Tuesday; Ff. 61a-72a, Wednesday; Ff. 72a-75b, Thursday; Ff. 75b-79b, Friday; Ff. 79b-99a, The story of the fall of man and of his salvation.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 99b-139a
Supplied Title:
The Mystery of the Incarnation [Mestira Śeggāwē] in four parts.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 139a-160a
Supplied Title:
The Passion of Christ [Hamāmāta masqal] under which thirteen sufferings of Christ duirng pasion week are treated.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 160a-168b
Supplied Title:
Mystery of Baptism [Mestira ṭemqat].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 168b-174b
Supplied Title:
Mystery of the Eucharist [Mestira qwerbān]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 174b-186a
Supplied Title:
Mystery of the Resurrection [Mestira tenśā'ē]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 174b-176b
Supplied Title:
On the Resurrection of our Lord [Ya-gētā tenśā'ē]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 176b-186a
Supplied Title:
On the general Resurrection [Yannā tenśā'ē] "our resurrection", i.e. the General resurrection.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 186b-197a
Supplied Title:
On computus [Bāḥra ḥassāb] or [Marh 'ewwer] as ascribed to Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria (f. 187a). See EMML Pr. No. 1468, 4)
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 186b-187b
Supplied Title:
Introduction.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 187b-189b
Supplied Title:
Introducing the different cycle using the year 7378 A.M. /1878 E.C.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 189b-195b
Supplied Title:
On how to fix the moveable feasts and fasts.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 195b
Supplied Title:
On [āmata wagēlāweyān]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 195b-196a
Supplied Title:
['elata Yoḥannes]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 196a
Supplied Title:
[Sanbata Krestiryān]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 196ab
Supplied Title:
Dates of some historical events.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 196b-197a
Supplied Title:
On the epact.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1b
Supplied Title:
A note in pencil stating that during Tāhśāś-Ṭerr of the year of Matthew 1929 E.C. (Dec. 1936-Feb. 1937 A.D.) the population of the city decimated by the Italians and because of epidemic.
Language(s):
Amharic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1b
Supplied Title:
The date, Thursday, Yakkātit 4, 1929 E.C. (= Feb. 11, 1937 A.D.) in which Italy occupied [gabbā] (Ethiopia) and the consecutive dates - 5, 6, 8, 9, in which (the Italian authorities) confiscated the arms (of the resistance).
Language(s):
Amharic
Notes To Text:
This Amharic note has more but insufficiently legible, in formation about the Italian occupation of Ethiopia.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 2a
Supplied Title:
The date - Miyāzyā 13 - on which Mulunas was born.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 2a
Supplied Title:
The date - Saturday Tāhśāś 3, 1919 E.C. (= Dec. 12, 1926 A,.D.) on which Fitāwrāri Habta Giyorgis died.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 2a
Supplied Title:
The date - Tāhśāś 23, 1929 E.C. (Jan. 1, 1937 A.D.) - the purppose of which is not clear (tanassu kālalā ta-kanbātā ya-Daggazmac Amdē mist)
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 197ab
Supplied Title:
The genealogy of Rās Tafari (Emperor Haile Selassie I) through his father Le'ul Rās Makwannen from Wagdā Erās.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198a
Supplied Title:
The genealogy of Tasfā Mikā'ēl
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198a
Supplied Title:
The genealogy of Daggazmāc Nādaw.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198a
Supplied Title:
A note on the amount $4987 that the annotator received for hide and other articles [la-saqat la-qodā] on Ḫedār 6, 1904 E.C. (= Nov. 16, 1911 A.D.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198b
Supplied Title:
Additional notes on the genealogy of varia (6) above.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Revisit:
1
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198b
Supplied Title:
A note that it rained in Walāmo on Tāhśāś 11, 1918 E.C. (= Dec. 20, 1925 A.D.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 198b
Supplied Title:
A list of names who were present when Madfariyās Warq was born insufficiently legible.
