Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with tooled leather and the leather is protected by a linen cover
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer; dated, Sane 5, 1939 EC (f. 5a), Miyazya 28, 1941 EC (f. 201b), and 1942 EC (f. 128r) (= 12 June 1947–1950 A.D.)
Provenance:
Copied by a reliable hand, according to the colophon (f. 201v), from a manuscript known as Mäzgäbä Berhanä ‘Aläm of Betä Leḫem, which is owned by Qäň Masfen Ḫayla Maryam with baptismal name Gäbrä Maryam of Efrata in Mänzih (today Mänz).
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [ii + 204]
Outer Dimensions:
29.5 x 25.5 x 7.3 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Dated Or Not:
1
Date:
20th century
Year Month Day:
12 June 1947–1950 A.D.
Layout:
ff. 4r–204r in three columns; 38 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. F. 1r: Yarǝd, to whom the authorship of the Dǝggwa is ascribed, with other clergymen chanting in front of King Gäbrä Mäsqäl, who is also standing crowned and surrounded by his army–not so indicated.
Other Decoration:
ff. 5r, 67v, 69r, 129r (ḫaräg); ff. 4v, 31r (lines of alternating red and black dots and lines of full stops); lines of red and black dots are used as section dividers throughout
Alphabet:
Ethiopic
Native Date:
Sane 5, 1939 EC (f. 5a), Miyazya 28, 1941 EC (f. 201b), and 1942 EC (f. 128r)
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [4r-204r]
Supplied Title:
Antiphonary for the Whole Year, Dǝggwa
Supplied Title NS:
ድጓ፡
Language(s):
Gə‘əz
Notes To Text:
Published in Ethiopia, መጽሐፈ፡ ድጓ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ያሬድ፡ የደረሰው፡ Addis Ababa: Bərhanənna Sälam Press, 1959 EC, and see now, Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery, eds., Ethiopian Christian Religious Chant: An Anthology (Madison WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 1993–1997)
