Add. 1570 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Summary of Contents: Though not a pandect, this magisterial codex, likely produced in a royal scriptorium by at least ten scribes (Feśśeḥa Ṣeyon, Yoḥannes, Takla Hāymānot, Zamikā’ēl, Zakrestos, Kefla Gabre’ēl, Habta Mikā’ēl, Takla Māryām, Takla Abrehām, Fequra Iyasus), contains the vast majority of books belonging to the Ethiopian Old Testament canon. The codex is fully intact except for the loss of one sheet, the innermost bifolium of its twenty-sixth quire, resulting in the absence of nearly all of Micah and Joel. The concluding leaves of the codex contain records in Amharic of various property sales, chiefly from the late-eighteenth century, transacted between members of the Ethiopian nobility. The date of the work is written in the first colon at the end of 2 Kings: the 27th year of Särs’ä Dəngəl's reign.

Digitised version of Add.1570