• Homilies and Miracles of the Archangel Gabriel, and Various Marian Texts

Description:
  • 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.
Date:
  • 1870-1930
Range label:
  • Logical
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Abstract:
  • Loose slip of paper with a prayer between fols. 84 and 85.
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Publisher:
  • [Ethiopia], [between 1870 and 1930]
Subject:
  • Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton
Language:
  • English
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/q811kp61b
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Extent:
  • 1 item ; 11.5 x 16 cm
Call number:
  • Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts no. 43
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
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)
Provenance:
  • Former owner: Gabra Yohannes. Scribe: Gabra ʻIyasus.
Location:
  • Special Collections Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts no. 43
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