Add. 2916 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: This manuscript contains a humn to St. Michael; Homilies for festivals of St Michael; miracles of St. Michael; Kidan (morning prayer); discourse of Basil of Caesarea.
8r-63v
Language(s): Geez
8r
Title: Hedar. Discourse of Timothy of Alexandria
13v
Title: Tahsas
18r
Title: T’or
25v
Title: Yäkatit
28v
Title: Mäggabit. Discourse of [Severus] patriarch of Antioch
42r
Title: Miyazya. Discourse of [John] the orthodox
45v
Title: Ganbot
47r
Title: Säne. Discourse of [John] bishop of Aksum
52v
Title: Hamle
56r
Title: Nähasé
58v
Title: Mäsqäräm
60v
Title: T’ok’omt
64r
Title: Miracles of St Michael
Language(s): Geez
12 miracles
78r
Title: Kidan zä-nägäḥ
Title: Morning prayer
Language(s): Geez
82r
Title: እንተ፡ ክን፡ ሐኪም፡ ሐዊ፡ ወነ፡ ግር፡ ሐዊ፡ ዘአበ፡ ሐኪም፡ ኢትነ፡ በዘንተ፡ ጾም።
Title: Discourse of Basil of Caesarea
Language(s): Geez
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 97 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 25.0 × 22.0 cm.
Layout
19 lines per leaf
Hand(s)
Good handwriting
Decoration
- f. 7vA faint impression of the drawing of the Virgin and Child.
Additions: Inscriptions:
- Onfolios 1r-27 and folio 97r are lists in Amharic of various property, with dates, owners’ names, etc.
- On folio 7r and elsewhere occur the names of those for whom and by whom the book was written.
Binding
Boards are covered with stamped leather.
History
Origin: 18th cent. CE ; Ethiopia.
Provenance and Acquisition
Ethiopia
The manuscript was brought to England from India where it had been taken by a member of Napier's Abyssinian Expedition of 1867/8.
Record Sources
Description based on Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard.Cambridge University Press. 1961. Codicological description enhanced by Ted Erho.
Availability
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact Cambridge University Library Admissions. Contact near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright ; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard., Ullendorff, Edward (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1961)
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