Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Summary note

• Loose slip of paper with a prayer between fols. 84 and 85.
• Paper inserts between fols. 85 and 86: homily for the festival of the Archangel Gabriel on Tāhsās 22, sheets 1r-4r. Miracles of St. George and Mary, sheets 4v-8v.
• Inserted between fols. 87 and 88: European printed colored image of the Virgin and the child Jesus.

Notes

• Parchment. 123 folios, 2 columns, 15 lines. 1 sheet of paper inserted at the front of the mss, and 8 paper folios sewn into the manuscript between fols. 85-86. Wooden boards covered with leather, leather spine and colored brocade over-sleeve. Fols. 1r-3v, 84v, 85r-87v, 122v-123v are blank
• Forms part of: Robert Garrett Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts.

Contents

• 1. Letter in Amharic of Bālāmbārās Tasfā Māryām to Mamher Takla Haymānot With the senderʻs seal. On paper.
• 2. Folio 4r-28r. Homilies of the Archangel Gabriel for Tāhsās 22 and 19
• 3. Folio 28r-76v. Nineteen Miracles of the Archangel Gabriel
• 4. Folio 77r-84r. A Salām or Hymn of Salutation to the Archangel Gabriel
• 5. Folio 88r-113. Two Homilies and a Salām to the Virgin Mary
• 6. Folio 114r-122r. Synaxarium Entry for Yakkātit 16 Celebrating the Virgin Mary Kidāna Mehrat (Covenant of Mercy)

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Provenance

Former owner: Gabra Yohannes. Scribe: Gabra ʻIyasus.

OCLC

1340508921

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