Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [ii + 62]
Outer Dimensions:
19.5 x 15.0 x 3.2 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–57v two columns; 27–28 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
1. F. 58r: Map of the earth in concentric boxes, organized around the cardinal points. Ocean surrounds the whole.
Alphabet:
Ethiopic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [1r–21v]
Supplied Title:
Computus, Baḥǝrä Ḫasab
Supplied Title NS:
ባሕረ፡ ሐሳብ፡
Language(s):
Amharic
Notes To Text:
For a detailed study of the computus, see Otto Neugebaur, Ethiopic Astronomy and Computus, (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979); and Getatchew Haile (ጌታቸው፡ ኃይሌ), ባሕረ፡ ሐሳብ፡ የዘመን፡ ቆጠራ፡ ቅርሳችን፡ ከታሪክ፡ ማስታወሻ፡ ጋር፥
Attributed, in this manuscript, to John. 1. F. 22r: note of authorship: “This book, which is called Abu šahǝr, is written by John, and tells about the computus of the sun and moon and stars.”
Subject:
Computus
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [25v–27v]
Supplied Title:
The story of how the computus was revealed to Demetrius
Arranged in columns: computation cycle (‘awǝdä qämär, i.e., according to the 532–year cycle), cycle of epact (‘awǝdä abäqte, i.e., according to the 19–year cycle), birth of epact (lǝdätä abäqte)
Subject:
Computus
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [42r–56v]
Supplied Title:
Computus of Demetrius, patriarch of Alexandria (189–232), Ḫasab Dǝmeṭǝros
Making computations from the creation of the world up to the end of the world. 1. Ff. 57rv: Names of the months, Asǝmatä Awǝraḫ, አስማተ፡ አውራኅ፡, in Egyptian, Coptic, Afǝrǝngi (French), Islamic (Arabic), Hebrew, Rome (Latin), Syriac, Greek, and Arabic.
