Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches
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
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [iv + 125]
Outer Dimensions:
16.8 x 12.0 x 6.5 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–122r two columns; 22–23 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
lines of alternating red and black dots are used as section dividers, often with geometric patterns connected to the lines (e.g., ff. 1v, 2rv).
see, AṢZ 249–373. 1. At various points in the manuscript, the writer indicates instructions for the ziq and often identifies the source of the tradition for that particular chant. Gojjam, Gondar, Tigray and Shewa are mentioned. E.g., f. 1r identifies the
