2 cols, 17 lines. Parchment Codex. Written in black and red ink. Two miniatures. No case. Glossy wooden boards, stitched with folio back. Fols. 1 and 64: Serve as binding folios covering the spine
Non-ALA-LC romanization used in record.
Illustration: Fol. 2r: Drawing of a man and a woman, a couple, one wearing green clothing, the other red. Perhaps the owners.
Illustration: Fol. 3r: Häräg drawing.
Illustration: Fol. 63v: Drawing of a small cherubim at the bottom of the second column.
Fol. 1r: Pen trial of a letter opening, "a plea for the Wällo imperial province."
Fols. 1rv, 2rv: Pen trial, pencil scrawls.
Fol. 1r: The name Wäyzäro Däbritu Täfära appears in pencil. Probably the later owner.
Lower board has the Arabic numerals AM81-15.
No owner listed. No scribe listed.
Publisher:
[Ethiopia], [between 1900 and 1909]
Subject:
Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton
Spatial:
New Jersey
Contents:
1. Folio 3r-32r. Praise of Mary (Wəddase Maryam)
1.1. Folio 3r-5v. Monday
1.2. Folio 5v-10r. Tuesday
1.3. Folio 10r-15v. Wednesday
1.4. Folio 15v-21r. Thursday
1.5. Folio 21r-25r. Friday
1.6. Folio 25r-28r. Saturday
1.7. Folio 28r-32r. Sunday
2. Folio 32v-47v. Gate of Light
3. Folio 47v-63v. Image of Mary (Mälkə'a Maryam)
4. Folio 64r. "Fitawrari [a military title] Gabriel / a Dasai Sensi. Leo. in Fiore" In unclear Latin script, in faint ink. Dasai is the capital of Wällo, a province in northeast Ethiopia.
Created:
1900-01-01T00:00:00Z/1909-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
1900-1909
Location:
Special Collections C0776 (Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, no. 12s)