Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with tooled leather and a fabric cover protects the leather
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Provenance:
1. F. 9v: Original owner: Wäldä Rufä‘el. This name has been erased in most places and replaced with that of the secondary owner. 2. F. 1 and passim. Secondary owner, in red ink: Wälättä Maryam.
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [ii + 91]
Outer Dimensions:
26.5 x 21.0 x 7.0 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–89v two columns; 22–24 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. Drawing, in pencil, of the Archangel Michael.
Other Decoration:
ff. 9v, 57v, 64v, 71r, 79r, 84v, 89rv (multiple full stops); f. 17v (line of alternating red and black dots).
Alphabet:
Ethiopic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [1r–89r]
Supplied Title:
Homiliary in Honor of the Archangel Michael
Supplied Title NS:
ድርሳነ፡ ሚካኤል፡
Language(s):
Gə‘əz
Notes To Text:
Published several times in Ethiopia; see for example, DM 11–205. See also BL Or. 4849, Strelcyn BL 94–7; EMML 1133.
