Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with tooled leather, linen visible between the turn-ins, headband and tailband
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Provenance:
F. 1r and passim: owners’ names, Fǝśǝḥ Ḥä Ṣǝyon and Niqodimos.
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [iii + 160]
Outer Dimensions:
36.0 x 27.4 x 9.5 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–158v three columns; 38–40 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
ff. 121r, 124r, 138v (multiple full stops); ff. 124v, 133v, 144r, 158v (line of alternating red and black dots).
EMML 1173; Or. 784, Wright, Catalogue of Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1877) CCCXLIV, 232–4; Ṭanasee 11, Ham (Ṭanasee) 1.11 110–114; published under the title Haymanotä Abäw (Addis Ababa, 1967 EC).
