Haile, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 5 p. 26
Provenance:
Notes of ownership by the church of St. George at Sāgā, ff. 1a and 79b. Copied by Mestira Krestos, (colophon, f. 79b). In Institute of Ethiopian Studies when filmed.
Reproduction:
Ff. 53a and 78b-79a filmed twice.
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
100 ff.,
Outer Dimensions:
17.5 x 16 cm,
Country:
Ethiopia
Region:
Shoa
City:
Addis Ababa
Date:
18th century
Support:
Parchment
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 2a-4b
Supplied Title:
Image [malke'] of Zamāryām
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
in an early 17th century hand. As "Images" say very little that is specific, there is not much to say about Zamāryām form this hymn. He probably comes from an island called Zandā.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 4a-5a
Supplied Title:
Greeting [salām] of seven lines to a saint whose name is not filled in, in a later hand than 1) above.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 5a
Supplied Title:
Greeting of one column to sts. Eheta Krestos and Dengel Ebayā by the hand of 2) above. Cf. Aethiops 3-4 (Oct. 1930), 51-53.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 7a-76b
Supplied Title:
Horologium of the night hours called here Gebra lēlit. See Maṣḥafa sa'atāt, Addis Ababa (1952 E.C.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 7a-10b
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 6th (? The number is not clear) hour of the night.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 10b-13a
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 7th hour of the night.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 13a-15b
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 8th hour of the night.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 16a-25a
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 9th hour of the night, but with the rubric "of Sunday" [za-ehud], apparently a reference to the reading.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 25a-37b
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 10th hour of the night with the rubric "alternative of Saturday" [melwāt za-qadāmi sanbat]., apparently a reference to the reading.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 38b-41a
Supplied Title:
Prayer for the 11th hour of the night.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 41a-78a
Supplied Title:
Prayers for the 12th hour of the night.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 79a-99a
Supplied Title:
Communal prayer for the Time of Tribulation, called "Praise of the Beloved" [Sebḥata fequr].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Arranged for the days of the week: F. 79a, Introduction; Ff. 80a-81b, Monday; Ff. 81b-82a, Tuesday; Ff. 82a-83a, Wednesday; Ff. 83b-87a, Thursday; Ff. 87b-89a, Friday; Ff. 89a-91a, Saturday; Ff. 91a-99a, Sunday.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 79ab
Supplied Title:
Introductory prayer: Pss. 6, 24, 31, 37, 50, 69, and 129, canticles 6 (Manasseh) and 13 (St.Mary), Weddāsē Māryām, and, if there is a priest, a Liṭon and a supplication [mastabqe']
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 91a
Supplied Title:
Rhyming litanical praise to Our Lady Mary
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 92b
Supplied Title:
Hymn to St. Mary, daughter of Māti [Māryām walatta Māti]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 96a
Supplied Title:
Hymn invoking the intercession of Sts. George
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 97b
Supplied Title:
Takla Hāyamānot
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 97b
Supplied Title:
Ewostātēwos
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 97b, f. 96a
Supplied Title:
Gabra Manfas Qeddus. The initial rubrics are either illegible or were never inserted.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 98a
Supplied Title:
Litanical hymn indicated by its incipit, Ba'enta bekāyā,
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 98b
Supplied Title:
A litanical hymn indicated by its incipit, Ba'enta zerwatomu
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 98a
Supplied Title:
The prayers (d) to (f) are, according to the rubric, for the time of communion (ba-gizē qwerbān [zanta bal])
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1b and 6a
Supplied Title:
Acts 23, 1-11.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 5a
Supplied Title:
The beginning of the Weddāsē Māryām.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6a
Supplied Title:
The diaconal response, Kwello za-iyyāfaqqero.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6b
Supplied Title:
Varia (3) repeated in the same crude hand.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6b
Supplied Title:
Col. 1, 12.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 99b-100a
Supplied Title:
Enumeration before witnesses of the property of Abēto Marqorēwos when wayzaro Nudit was betrothed to him.
