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HMML Reading Room Record:

https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/203990

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Institution:

HMML

HMML Project Number:

EMML 2161

Country:

Ethiopia

City:

Ankober

Repository:

Parish Church

ShelfMark:

na

Folio:

101 + 2 ff.,

Bibliography:

Haile & Macomber, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 6 p. 266

Provenance:

Note of ownership by Mitāq Takla Hāymānot, f.1a. In the church of Mitāq Takla Hāymānot when filmed.

Reproduction:

Ff. 22b-24a and 59b-60a filmed twice.

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Manuscript Part I

Folio:

101 + 2 ff.,

Country:

Ethiopia

Region:

Shoa

City:

Ankobarr

Date:

18th century

Scribe:

Faqada Egzi'

Representational Decoration:

Simple drawing of an angel f. 1a.

Other Decoration:

Decorative designs, ff. 2a, 4a, 6a, 8a, 8b, 11a, 11b, 12b, 14b, 15b, 17b, 18a, 18b, 20b, 21b, 22b, 24a, 27b, 28a, 29b, 30a, 34a, 35a, 37a, 38a, 39a, 42, 45, 45, 45b, 46, 49, 52b, 57b, 60b, 61, 67, 71, 73, 77a, 78b, 79a, 80a, 81a, 82b, 84a, 84b & 85a

Notes:

Copied for Hezqe'ēl and dated (f. 101a) 8th of Nahasē of the 9th year of the reign of King Tēwoderos of Shoa (Aug. 12, 1783/4 AD) 9th year of Tēwoderos/Asfā Wasan when the abbot [?Liqa arde't] of the monastery of Mitāq was Walda Iyyasus (f.101a).

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 2a-101b

Supplied Title:

The Book of the Mysteries of Heave and Earth [Maṣḥafa mestira samāy wa-medr].

Language(s):

Ge'ez

Notes To Text:

Edited by J. Perruchon. F. 1b: pen trial.