Sawn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with tooled leather, headband and tailband
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer; several factors point to the production of this codex in the government scriptorium
Colophon:
F. 301v: Colophon, “This commentary of the book of missal was written in 1974 E.C by Märige(ta) Gäbrä Maryam, Wäldä Maryam of Saynt [in Wollo] and Lǝ‘ul Wäldä Rufa’el.”
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [vi + 305]
Outer Dimensions:
33.5 x 28.2 x 13.0 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Dated Or Not:
1
Date:
late 20th century
Year Month Day:
1981/1982
Layout:
ff. 1r–301v three columns; 35 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Scribe:
Märige(ta) Gäbrä Maryam, Wäldä Maryam of Saynt [in Wollo] and Lǝ‘ul Wäldä Rufa’el
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
ff. 1r, 45r, 103r, 133r, 144r, 161r (ornate, colorful ḫaräg); multiple full stops are used as section dividers throughout (e.g., ff. 2v, 4r); f. 198r (lines of alternating red and black dots)
Alphabet:
Ethiopic
Native Date:
1974 EC
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [1r–301v]
Supplied Title:
Commentary on the Missal, in Gǝ‘ǝz (the missal) and Amharic (the commentary)
Language(s):
Amharic; Ge'ez
Notes To Text:
Published in Ethiopia, መጽሐፈ፡ ቅዳሴ፡ ከቀድሞ፡ አባቶች፡ ሲወርድ፡ ሲዋረድ፡ የመጣው፡ ንባቡና፡ ትርጓሜው፡ (Addis Ababa: Tǝnśa’e, 1988). On the missal itself see, MQ51; Daoud-Mersie, Liturgy, as well as Ernst Hammerschmidt, Studies in the Ethiopic Anaphoras
