Add. 2916 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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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.
1v-3v
Title: A hymn to St. Michael
Title: አንግም፡ አንግም፡ ወእንበት፡ እንበት፡ በመን፡ ርእሲና፡ ሩእሲና።
Language(s): Geez

Sälam and Mika'el in red.

8r-63v
Title: Homilies for festivals of St Michael
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
Author: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
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

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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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