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HMML Reading Room Record:

https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/204187

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Institution:

HMML

HMML Project Number:

EMML 2358

Country:

Ethiopia

City:

Genner Agar

Repository:

Monastery of Dabra Bagge'

ShelfMark:

na

Folio:

154 ff.,

Bibliography:

Haile & Macomber, Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts, vol. 6 p. 421

Notes:

F. 154b not filmed.

Provenance:

In Monastery of Dabra Bagge when filmed.

Reproduction:

Ff. 83b-84a and 90b-91a filmed twice.

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Manuscript Part I

Folio:

154 ff.,

Outer Dimensions:

21 x 17.5 cm.,

Country:

Ethiopia

Region:

Shoa

City:

Genner Agar

Date:

16th century

Year Month Day:

1575-1590

Support:

Parchment

Notes:

(mentions Abbā Māreqos, f. 85b, and Sarẓa Dengel [1563-1597], f. 24a)

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 2a-57b

Supplied Title:

The Testament of Our Lord [Kidān za-Egzi'ena wa-Madḫānina Iyyasus Krestos]. Although it is divided into 49 sections only, the text is complete and good.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 2a-40a

Supplied Title:

On the ordering of the Church.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 40a-57b

Supplied Title:

Revelation of the future by Our Lord to his disciples in Galilee.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 58a-64b

Supplied Title:

Cerermonial for the priest.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 64b-78b

Supplied Title:

Ordering of the Church [Śer'ata Bētā Krestiyān].

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 78b-84b

Supplied Title:

Questions and answers concerning ecclesiastical matters.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 84b-85b

Supplied Title:

John Chrysostom on the Church, how it is built on the foundations of the Saints of the Old and New Testaments.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 85b-92a

Supplied Title:

A tract on the ordering of the Church.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 92a-95a

Supplied Title:

On pastoral care.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 95a-123a

Supplied Title:

Penitential canons entitled Faws Manfasāwi "Spiritual Medicine."

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 123a-126a

Supplied Title:

Penitential canon for Monks.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 126a-137b

Supplied Title:

The Service over the Basin on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul by Peter, Bishop of Behensā.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 138a-154a

Supplied Title:

The Rite of adoration at the end of the feast of Pentecost [Śer'ata segdat ba-tafṣāmēta Ba'ala 50 Qeddest].

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 138a-143a

Supplied Title:

First worship

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 143b-147b

Supplied Title:

Second worship [Dāgemit sagdat]

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 147b-154a

Supplied Title:

Third worship [Śālesāy segdat].

Language(s):

Ge'ez

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Manuscript Text

Folio:

Ff. 153a-154a

Supplied Title:

Additional prayers.

Language(s):

Ge'ez

Notes To Text:

Ff. 128a, 138a-141b and 152a-154a partially blotted.