Rough-hewn wooden boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Provenance:
F. iii v(erso), lines 16–19: note of donation of the book to Ṣata Mika’el church.
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [iii + 92]
Outer Dimensions:
21.4 x 13.7 x 5.8 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–90r one column; 25 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. F. 38r: crude drawing of a figure with arms upraised, in pencil. 2. F. 39v: The Holy Trinity. 3. F. 40r: The Crucifixion. 4. F. 41r: Saint George and the Dragon. 5. F. 41v: Madonna and Child.
Other Decoration:
ff. 1r, 44r, 52r, 60v, 66r (ḫaräg); f. 54v (line of alternating red and black dots).
The basic work is an Amharic explanation of the teachings of the Church, widely copied, e. g. EMML 1648, f. 16a; EMML 1815; see also ፭ቱ አዕማደ፡ ምሥጢር፡፡ (Addis Ababa: Täsfa Press, 1952 EC).
