Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with a double-pouch, plain linen cover
Bibliography:
Melaku Terefe, Steve Delamarter, and Jeremy R. Brown. Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 7: Codices 601–654:The Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab Collection of Mekane Yesus Seminary. EMTS 13. Pickwick Publications: Eugene, Oregon, 2011.
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Provenance:
F. 83v: later owner’s name (in blue ink) Wäldä Sändät Däsǝta.
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [i + 85]
Outer Dimensions:
11.2 x 8.2 x 3.2 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–83v one column; 10 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. F. 85v: crude drawing of a figure, in pencil.
Other Decoration:
f. 2r (ornate ḫaräg in black ink); ff. 12v, 25r, 37r and 50v (line of red dots); ff. 1v and 83v (multiple full stops).
Grohmann, Marienhymnen (ff. 4r–5v are written in a different hand on an inserted leaf), arranged for the days of the week, Monday (2r), Tuesday (12v), Wednesday (25r), Thursday (37r), Friday (50v), Saturday (63r), Sunday (73r). In each case a piece of thr