Haile & Macomber, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 5 p. 293
Notes:
The text is similar to Zotenberg, Catalogue des manuscrits ethiopiens (Paris, 1877), no. 35, p. 32 ff. Taddesse Tamrat, "The Abbots," Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 8 (1970): 87-117, discusses the varia.
Provenance:
Gift of Abuna Iyyasus Mo'a, the founder of the monastery of the Monastery of Ḥayq Esṭifānos (f. 24b). Located in the monastery when filmed.
Reproduction:
Ff. 1b-2a, 23b-24a, 172b-173a, 180b-181a, 219b-212a and 316b-317a filmed twice.
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
346 ff.,
Outer Dimensions:
27.5 x 17.5 cm.
Country:
Ethiopia
Region:
Wallo
City:
Ambāssal
Date:
13th century
Year Month Day:
1280/81
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
All miniatures have captions.
Other Decoration:
Decorative frames, ff. 7ab, 8ab, 9ab, 10ab, 11ab and 12ab. A cross in an illustrious frame, f. 12b
Notes:
Dated (f. 24b), 465 year of the 532-year cycle (= 1280/1 A.D.).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 7a-338
Supplied Title:
Four Gospels [Arbā'ettu Wangēlāt].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Ff. 7a-31b: Introduction.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 7a-8a
Supplied Title:
The letter of Eusebius to Carpianus [Awsābes la-Qārpeyānos].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
In later manuscripts, Carpianus is rendered Qopereyānos
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 8b-11b
Supplied Title:
Eusebian canons [aqmārāt].
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
(a) and (b) are presented in richly decorated frames.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 30a-31b
Supplied Title:
Synoptic presentation concerning the agreement of the texts of the Four Gospels [Gessawē śer'at]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 32a-130a
Supplied Title:
Gospel of Matthew.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Ff. 32a-34a: Traditional chapters [are'est]. Ff. 36a-130a: The Gospel. Mt. 1, 18-19, 25 & 2, 6 (ff. 37a-38b) should be compared with Zotenberg's excerpt from MS. 35 (p. 32). Also Hackspill, ZA 11 (1896): 117-96, 367-88.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 130b-180b
Supplied Title:
Gospel of Mark
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Ff. 130b-131b: Traditional chapters [are'est]. ff. 133a-180b: The Gospel
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 181a-267b
Supplied Title:
The Gospel of Luke.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
ff. 181a-183a: Traditional chapters [are'est]. Ff. 185a-286b: The Gospel.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 268a-337b
Supplied Title:
The Gospel of John
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
f. 286a: Traditional chapters [are'est]. Ff. 270a-337b: The Gospel
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 337b-339b
Supplied Title:
Notes on the number of chapters and words of the Gospels.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Rubricated with the traditional chapters or headings [are'est ] and with the liturgical occasions when particular passages are to be read.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1a
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by Emperor Eskender (1478-1494) to Tawlada Madhen in 6981 (1488/89 A.D.), when the Aqqābē Sa'at was Takla Iyyasus Mo'a;
Status Of Text:
poorly legible.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Tawalda Madhen, according to another note on f. 3a, was the governer of that region, medra gazē; which seems to be different from the śeyyuma medr that is also mentioned in the same note. A note on paper identifying the manus. has been pasted on the leaf
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 1b
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by Aqqābē Sa'at Tēwogolos to Marāhi Takla Yoḥannes in compensation for the land that had been taken from him and granted to Makāna śellāsē (founded and destroyed during the reign of Lebna Dengel [1508-1542]).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 2a-3a
Supplied Title:
Order of incensing at the Monastry of Hayq made by Aqqābē Sa'at Yoḥannes.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Concerning Yoḥannes, see Taddesse Tamrat, "The Abbots," pp. 99-101.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 3a
Supplied Title:
A note copied when Takla Iyyasus Mo'a was tha Aqqābē Sa'at.
Status Of Text:
Body of the note has been erased.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See also the varia on f. 1a.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 3a
Supplied Title:
A note in which the dues on two lands of the monastery are fixed by Aqqābē Sa'at Takla Iyyasus mo'a.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 3ab
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by ' Aqqābē Sa'at Zakrestos for the memorial feast of ('Aqqābē Sa'at) Za'iyyasus and (his son) Buruk.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 4ab
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by Aqqābē Sa'at Zakrestos for the memorial feast of Aqqābē Sa'at Za'iyyasus and his son, Buruk, who seem to have died together in an accident.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 5a
Supplied Title:
What seems to be the continuation of a record of the assignment of a plot and the house on it for the memorial feast of Isāyeyyās, whom the donor calls "my father"
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
According to a note on f. 27b, Isāyeyyās was Afa 'Aqqābē Sa'at under Krestos Tasfāna.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6a
Supplied Title:
Inventory of books, itemized.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Written in a 16th-century hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6a
Supplied Title:
Anathemas [gezat] concerning the monastery by Iyyasus Mo'a
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Written in a 16th-century hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 6a
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by Aqqqābē Sa'at Yoḥannes for the memorial feast of the Three Holy Children and for Amlāk Mo'a, whom he calls "my father".
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See Taddesse Tamrat, "The Abbots," pp. 99-101, for Yoḥannes.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 23b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of a house to Tēwoseros by Aqqābē Sa'at Beneyām.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 23b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by Aqqābē Sa'at Beneyām to Tēwoderos, dated 6924 AM/year 84 of the 532- year cycle (=1421/2 A.D.)
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 24a
Supplied Title:
Assignment or confirmation of land for the memorial feast of Za'iyyasus (and his son Buruk ?) and for Yoḥannes and Marqoreyos.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Appears to be a continuation of the bequests found on ff. 3ab and 4ab.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 24b
Supplied Title:
A note by Iyyasus Mo'a, the founder of the Monastery of Hayq Estifānos, that he has commissioned the copying of this manuscript for the monastery, dated year 465 of the 532-cycle (= 1280/1 A.D.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 24b-25a
Supplied Title:
A list of seven books, Sa'atāt, Dāwit, ṣalota 'etān, Qeddāsē, Gabra Krestos, Qwesqwām and Maṣḥafa ṭemqat, left to the monastery by a certain Bahayla Krestos when he died on the 16 th (?) of Yakkātit, yar 476 of the 532-cycle (= 1291/2 A.D.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 25b
Supplied Title:
Record of the donation of a book of kings [Nagaśt] and a Psalter [Dāwit] by Za'iyyasus, successor of Abuna Iyyasus Mo'a.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
It is not clear whether it was Za'iyyasus or King Yekunno Amlāk and his son, Yāgbe'a [MS: Yāgbā] Seyon, who donated a long list of church furnishings to the daughter church mentioned on this same leaf.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 26a
Supplied Title:
A list of church furnishings donated to the monastery by Za'iyyasus. The ten books mentioned are not itemized.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F.26a
Supplied Title:
A list of church furnishings donated by Kings(?) Yekunno Amlāk and Yāgbe'a [MS: Yāgbā] Seyon to the monastery.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 26b-28b
Supplied Title:
A note by 'Amda Seyon (1314-1344) restoring lands his ancestors granted to the monastery and granting new lands for the memorial feast of 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Tasfāna, whose prayers helped him defeat his enemies.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Two years after the donation, `Amda Seyon subdued Dāmost, Hadeyyā, the ruler of Gwazzām, the ruler of Entertā and his enemies in the Red Sea, probably in the Dahlak Islands, which he reached riding on a water buffalo [harmaz].
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 28b
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant to the monastery by Qamazānay (liqa mazānē) Mangaday.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 29a
Supplied Title:
Record of land grant by 'Amda Seyon to the tabot in the name of Jesus, which he brought from Dāmot and established in Zagēt, probably as a daughter monastery of Hayq Estifānos.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 29b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of a plot and the house on it by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Bakkimos to Isāyeyyās, who already has occupied it at the time of the donation.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See f. 6b, also ff. 5a and 26b-28b.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 34a
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Tēwogolos to a certain Mātēwos, that he may make the memorial feast of Nob, the martyr.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See also f. 1b
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 34ab
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of a land by Aqqābē Sa'at Yosēf to a certain Tanśe'a Krestos and his father Dāne'ēl, that they may make the memorial feast of St. Stephen. The donation was made during the reign of Emperor Yeshaq (1413/4-1429/30).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 35a
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land and a house by Aqqābē Sa'at Beneyām to the children (followers ?) of a certain priest monk Giyorgis, that they may make the memorial feast of their father. Dated year 84 of the 532-year cycle (= 1431/2 A.D.).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Giyorgis kāhen wa-manakos was most probably Giyorgis za-Gāsecca who died a few years (1426 ?) before the date of the donation. The scholar saint had received his training in Hayq.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 130a
Supplied Title:
Record of the transfer by Aqqābē Sa'at Ammeha Laseyon of the ownership of land assigned for the memorial feast of Sagga Za'ab.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
The names of the parties involved in the transfer have been erased and substituted by other names--from Gabra Māryām to Zamikā'ēl. Dated 6973 AM, 18th apaqtē, tentēwon [7], [2], 2 śarqa lēlit, 1 śarqa ma'alt (= 26 January/25 February 1481 A.D.).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 131b-132a
Supplied Title:
A note by Emperor Zar'a Yā'eqob (1434-1468) ruling that those who serve on the land of the monastery should not be conscripted (?) because a certain problem of his hand been solved through the prayer of the monks.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 180a-181a
Supplied Title:
Regulation [śer'at] made of Zakkāreyās and his niece Atnāseyos concerning the use of land they denoted (?) to the daughter monastries of Dabra Hay--partially damaged.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Copied during the reign of Sayfa Ar'ad (1344-1372), when Yoḥannes--see ff. 2a-3a - was the Aqqābē Sa'at.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 183ab
Supplied Title:
Inventory of church furnishings. The 202 books mentioned are not listed.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Copied in year 24 of the 532-year cycle (=1447/8 A.D.). This is not the same cycle found elsewhere in the ms, but one that began in the 10th year of Emperor Yeshaq in 1423 A.D.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 183b-184a
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant or a confirmation of it by Emperor Eskender (1478-1494) to Laq Masarā
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
(?) On f. 267b: Rāq māsarā; (see f. 343 ab) kiros.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F.184a
Supplied Title:
Land grant by Aqqābē Sa'at Nagada Iyyasus.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 184a
Supplied Title:
A note on the property of Afa 'Aqqābē Sa'at Kefla [also Keflē] Yoḥannes which he inherited from Qasa Gabaz Faraday, son of Zar'a Abrehām, and which he bought from Afa 'Aqqābē Sa'at Luqās.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 267b
Supplied Title:
A record of the confirmation or the assignment of land by Aqqābē Sa'at Takla Iyysus Mo'a to the grand children of Za'iyysus. Concerning Takla Iyyasus Mo'a to the grand children of Za'iyysus.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See f. 1a for Takla Iyysus Mo'a
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 268b
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by Emperor Zar'a Yā'eqob to his obedient friend Gabra Krestos, the Rās of Angot.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Dated 6937 AM (= 1444/5 A.D).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 269a
Supplied Title:
"Text" of the pact between King Yekunno Amlāk and Abuna Iyyasus Mo'a about the monastery.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Written in a 16th-century hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 269a
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Nagada Iyyasus of the house(s) of Gabra Krestos and Māmās and of the land of the queen (? Medra negeśt, nagaśt?) to Takla Giyorgis.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 338a
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by Empeoror Zar'a Yā'eqob (to the monastery)
Status Of Text:
partially erased.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Grant in the manuscript given to Iyyasus Mo'a. Written in an 18th-century hand; probably not authentic.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 338b
Supplied Title:
A note on the ornamentation of this manuscript in gold and on a land grant, all by King Yāgbe'a [MS: Yāgbā] Seyon in year 478 of the 532-year cycle (= 1293/4 A.D.); as a result, the king says, he destroyed Ye'qabanna who came to take his kingdom.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Ya-qabanna was probably a pretender to the throne of Yekunno Amlāk.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 339a
Supplied Title:
Inventory of church funishings, including 100(?) books, which are not itemized.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Written in a hand of the 13th-14th century.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 339a
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by Empeoror Zar'a Yā'eqob to Iyyasus Mo'a (i.e. the Monastery of Hayq).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
The content is more or less that of the grant on f. 338a.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 339b-340a
Supplied Title:
A note on the fixing of land revenues of the monastery by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Zakrestos.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See f. 3ab for Zakrestos.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 340b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Bahayla Giyorgis to Fantāyē for the memorial feast of his mother, Sih Debābā, who was apprently considered a saint (ba-ṣalota "by her prayer").
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 341a-343a
Supplied Title:
Regulation [śer'at] made by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a on the land dues to be paid by users of monastic land for the memorial feast of St. Stephen the martyr. The previous regulation about incensing in the monastery (ff. 2a-3a) is also reaffirmed.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Krestos Mo'a was, according to a note on f. 344b, 'Aqqābē Sa'at ca. 1348/9 A.D., that is, a predecessor of Yohannes and not a successor as thought by Taddesse Tamrat, "The Abbots," p. 100
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 343ab
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant to (the monastery of) Estifānos and specifically to its Rāq Māsarā, by '(Aqqābē Sa'at) Ammeha Laseyon for the memorial feast of Ayeqqabā (?). Concerning Ammeha Laseyon, see varia (30) above.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 344a
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a to Archdeacon Bartalomēwos and to the office of the archdeacon after him.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See the regulation on ff. 341a-343a for 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 344b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land and a plot with the house on it by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a to a certain Amlāk Bena--whom he calls "my father"--and for his memorial feast.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See the regulation on ff. 341a-343a for 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a
Manuscript Text
Folio:
344a-345b
Supplied Title:
Record of a land grant by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Krestos Mo'a to Makāna Giyorgis, a daughter monastery (?) of Hayq, dated year 1 of the 532-year cycle (= 1348/9 A.D).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 345b
Supplied Title:
Record of the assignment of land by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Yoḥannes for the memorial feast of Amlāk Mo'a, whom he calls "my father" and "the righteous."
Record of the assignment of land and a confirmation of it by 'Aqqābē Sa'at Beneyām for the memorial feast of Amlāk Mo'a, whom he calls a hermit (za-fassama ba-behtewennā gadlo senu'a . . .).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
See f. 23b. This hermit is also mentioned in other notes, see ff. 6a, 345b.
