The first part of the Memoirs or Autobiography of Blāttā Marse'ē Ḥazan Walda Qirqos [Tezzetāyē: Sela rāsē yammāstāwwesaw]
Language(s):
Amharic
Notes To Text:
Text mostly on recto. The first three foreguard leaves (1A to 3A) and the seven reargued leaves blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 4Aa
Supplied Title:
Title page: Marse'ē Ḥazan Walda Qirqos, Tezzetāyē: Sela rāsē yammāstāwesaw.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 4ab
Supplied Title:
List of other (unpublished) works by Marse'ē Ḥazan.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 5A
Supplied Title:
Introduction and dedication [Maglačā]
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 1B-9B
Supplied Title:
Table of contents.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 1a-241
Supplied Title:
Text: From birth, 17 Maggābit 1891 E.C. 9= 25 March 1899 A.D.) to the opening day celebration of a school in Giğğigā (Haragē) on 13 Maggābit 1922 E.C. (=21 March 1930 A.D.) Marse'ē Ḥazan was the director of the school.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Text in 29 chapters and 368 numbered sections
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 1 bis-26 bis
Supplied Title:
General index.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 164b
Supplied Title:
Copy of a letter by Rās Tafari (later Emperor Haile Selassie) to (Rās) Bitwaddad Walē (of Wallo), asking for copyists and parchment for Mamher Akāla Wald to make copies of commentaries on monastic writings.
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Tafari wanted copies of the commentaries on Aragāwi Manfasāwi (the monastic writings of John Saba) and Filekseyus (i.e., the monastic writings of Philoxenus of Mabbug), dated 15 Gebot, 1911 E.C. (= 23 May 1919 A.D.).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 165b
Supplied Title:
Handwritten copy of a letter by Rās Tafari to Mamher Akāla Wald asking the latter to arrange copying the commentaries on Aragāwi Manfasāwi and Filekseyus, dated 15 Genbot 1911 E.C. (see varia (1) above).
Language(s):
Ge'ez
Manuscript Text
Folio:
F. 212b
Supplied Title:
Certificate written, forty-eight years later, by Doktor (=Dr.) Ayyala Alamu, testifying that Marse'ē Ḥāzan Walda Qirqos has studied under him the commentary on Fetḥa Nagaśt (Code of Kings), dated 24 Ṭeqemt 1964 E.C. (= 4 November 1971 A.D.).
