Manufactured particle boards attached with bridle attachments to four Coptic chain stitches, spine and corners are covered in untooled leather, headband and tailband
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Provenance:
F. 66v, 68r and passim: name of original owner: Wälätä Ṣadǝq. F. 1r, 33r, 74v, and 89r, bottom margin in blue ink: name of later owner Abba Gäbrä Ḥǝywät.
Colophon:
F. 67v: Colophon: “This book was written in the reign of King Ḫaylä Śǝllase (2 April 1930–12 September 1974).” The scribe’s name is: Gäbrä Ḥǝywät.
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [iv + 92]
Outer Dimensions:
15.5 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–89r one column; 10 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Scribe:
Gäbrä Ḥǝywät
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. F. iii v(erso): Krǝstos Śämra, her maid, and her child on the maid’s back, on their way to Däbrä Libanos monastery. 2. F. iv r(ecto): Heart of Jesus (from catholic tradition). 3. F. iv v(erso). Krǝstos Śämra, when she went in the river and stood in t
Enrico Cerulli, Atti Di Krestos Samrā, CSCO AE 33/ 34 (Louvain: Peeters, 1956); Dennis Nosnitsin, “Krәstos Śämra,” EA 3, 443–45.
Subject:
Acts
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [68r–74r]
Supplied Title:
Three Miracles of Krǝstos Śämra
Supplied Title NS:
ተአምረ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ሠምራ፡
Language(s):
Gə‘əz
Notes To Text:
a. Ff. 68r–70v: First Miracle: On the death of Krǝstos Śämra: How a certain monk named Isaac found the body of our mother, Krǝstos Śämra; how he vowed to stay there with her body until he died, and how he died after forty days.b. Ff. 70v–72v: Second Mira
