Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, covered with tooled leather, linen is visible between the turn-ins
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [iv + 125]
Outer Dimensions:
17.0 x 12.6 x 5.5 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–122r two columns; 19 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
f. 10r (line of black dots); lines of alternating red and black dots are used as section dividers throughout (e.g., ff. 11v, 12r, 13rv); ff. 22v, 36rv, 67r, 69r (line of red dots); f. 118v (multiple full stops).
EMML 1135; Bernard Velat, Ṣom Deggua. Antiphonaire du carême. Quatre premières semaines, PO 32.1–2 (1966) and 32.3–4 (1969); and AṢZ 1–101, and see now, Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery, eds, Ethiopian Christian Religious Chant: An Anthology
