✖Here you can explore some general information about the project. See also Beta maṣāḥəft institutional web page. Select About to meet the project team and our partners. Visit the Guidelines section to learn about our encoding principles. The section Data contains the Linked Open Data information, and API the Application Programming Interface documentation for those who want to exchange data with the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. The Permalinks section documents the versioning and referencing earlier versions of each record.
Click to get back to the home page. Here you can find out more about the project team, the cooperating projects, and the contact information. You can also visit our institutional page. Find out more about our Encoding Guidelines. In this section our Linked Open Data principles are explained. Developers can find our Application Programming Interface documentation here. The page documents the use of permalinks by the project.
✖Descriptions of (predominantly) Christian manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea are the core of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. We (1) gradually encode descriptions from printed catalogues, beginning from the historical ones, (2) incorporate digital descriptions produced by other projects, adjusting them wherever possible, and (3) produce descriptions of previously unknown and/or uncatalogued manuscripts. The encoding follows the TEI XML standards (check our guidelines).
Shelf marks (full list)Manuscripts (search)List of Digitized ManuscriptsCatalogues EncodedInscriptions
✖We identify each unit of content in every manuscript. We consider any text with an independent circulation a work, with its own identification number within the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). Parts of texts (e.g. chapters) without independent circulation (univocally identifiable by IDs assigned within the records) or recurrent motifs as well as documentary additional texts (identified as Narrative Units) are not part of the CAe. You can also check the list of different types of text titles or various Indexes available from the top menu.
Clavis Aethiopica (Works)Narrative UnitsStudies
The clavis is a repertory of all known works relevant for the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition; the work being defined as any text with an independent circulation. Each work (as well as known recensions where applicable) receives a unique identifier in the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). In the filter search offered here one can search for a work by its title, a keyword, a short quotation, but also directly by its CAe identifier - or, wherever known and provided, identifier used by other claves, including Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (BHG), Clavis Patrum Graecorum (CPG), Clavis Coptica (CC), Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti (CAVT), Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti (CANT), etc. The project additionally identifies Narrative Units to refer to text types, where no clavis identification is possible or necessary. Recurring motifs or also frequently documentary additiones are assigned a Narrative Unit ID, or thematically clearly demarkated passages from various recensions of a larger work. This list view shows the documentary collections encoded by the project Ethiopian Manuscript Archives (EMA) and its successor EthioChrisProcess - Christianization and religious interactions in Ethiopia (6th-13th century) : comparative approaches with Nubia and Egypt, which aim to edit the corpus of administrative acts of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, for medieval and modern periods. See also the list of documents contained in the additiones in the manuscripts described by the Beta maṣāḥǝft project . Works of interest to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies.
✖While encoding manuscripts, the project Beta maṣāḥǝft aims at creating an exhaustive repertory of art themes and techniques present in Ethiopian and Eritrean Christian tradition. See our encoding guidelines for details. Two types of searches for aspects of manuscript decoration are possible, the decorations filtered search and the general keyword search.
Index of decorationsArt KeywordsIlluminations
The filtered search for decorations, originally designed with Jacopo Gnisci, looks at decorations and their features only. The filters on the left are relative only to the selected features, reading the legends will help you to figure out what you can filter. For example you can search for all encoded decorations of a specific art theme, or search the encoded legends. If the decorations are present, but not encoded, you will not get them in the results. If an image is available, you will also find a thumbnail linking to the image viewer. [NB: The Index of Decorations currently often times out, we are sorry for the inconvenience.] You can search for particular motifs or aspects, including style, also through the keyword search. Just click on "Art keywords" and "Art themes" on the left to browse through the options. This is a short cut to a search for all those manuscripts which have miniatures of which we have images.
✖We create metadata for all places associated with the manuscript production and circulation as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The encoding of places in Beta maṣāḥǝft will thus result in a Gazetteer of the Ethiopian tradition. We follow the principles established by Pleiades and lined out in the Syriaca.org TEI Manual and Schema for Historical Geography which allow us to distinguish between places, locations, and names of places. See also Help page fore more guidance.
PlacesRepositories
This tab offers a filtrable list of all available places. Geographical references of the type "land inhabited by people XXX" is encoded with the reference to the corresponding Ethnic unit (see below); ethnonyms, even those used in geographical contexts, do not appear in this list. Repositories are those locations where manuscripts encoded by the project are or used to be preserved. While they are encoded in the same way as all places are, the view offered is different, showing a list of manuscripts associated with the repository.
✖We create metadata for all persons (and groups of persons) associated with the manuscript production and circulation (rulers, religious authorities, scribes, donors, and commissioners) as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The result will be a comprehensive Prosopography of the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition. See also Help page for more guidance.
Persons and groupsEthnic units
We encode persons according to our Encoding Guidelines. The initial list was inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix. We consider ethnonyms as a subcategory of personal names, even when many are often used in literary works in the context of the "land inhabited by **". The present list of records has been mostly inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix.
✖This section collects some additional resources offered by the project. Select Bibliography to explore the references cited in the project records. The Indexes list different types of project records (persons, places, titles, keywords, etc). Visit Projects for information on partners that have input data directly in the Beta maṣāḥǝft database. Special ways of exploring the data are offered under Visualizations. Two applications were developed in cooperation with the project TraCES, the Gǝʿǝz Morphological Parser and the Online Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae.
BibliographyIndexesProjectsVisualizationsGǝʿǝz Morphological ParserOnline Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae
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In the search mask above, you can search for text, below there are options and you can add filters ( ). You can then use facets to narrow your selection.
But text is not all you can search for. In the top menu you can switch to other types of queries and searches which rely on different indexes and data formats. You can check this box to use 'smart' ranking, where a higher score is assigned to hits in placeName, persName, title or to records with text or an occupation element. This will make you wait a bit more. If running a text search, you can select the type of text search. This determines how the single words which you enter are matched in the indexes here By default the search will use OR as an operator, which means that if you search two words you will get hits which contain one OR the other. You may wish to use AND to get the matches which contain your first word AND your second word. If you want them in that particular order, consider using phrase mode from the search type. Click on this plus button to see a series of additional options for your search. If you wish to search for a given word in the hands descriptions and another word in the decorations, here you can do that, using fields. This may help you enter characters which are not immediately present on your keyboard. Keep a letter pressed for additional forms. Use Shift and Alt for alternative keyboards. Instead of the pointer you can use your own keyboard with these values when active. Homophones are mechanically replaced for you, so that for example, if you search for one of 'ሀ', 'ሐ', 'ኀ', 'ሃ', 'ሓ', 'ኃ' we will search for all of them. If you deselect this checkbox the list of homophones will not be considered and only the exact string you searched will be passed on. Homophones are not replaced for search strings longer than 10 characters and is not applied in all modes. If you entered a search string for a Gǝʿǝz string, either typing it in Fidal or in a transliteration format, we can try to convert it and search also the other form. If you entered ወልደ the search engine will look also for walda. If you entered walda also for ወልደ. This depends on the availability of the alternate form.

You can enter above your SPARQL query to the RDF representation of the data stored in Apache Jena Fuseki. Please use single quotes ' not double.

PREFIXes are already there (see below), so you can start with SELECT. If you prefer to use your prefixes, do so, no problem. A super tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries is here at Apache Jena.

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PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX lawd: <http://lawd.info/ontology/>
PREFIX oa: <http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#>
PREFIX ecrm: <http://erlangen-crm.org/current/>
PREFIX crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/>
PREFIX gn: <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#>
PREFIX agrelon: <http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/agrelon.owl#>
PREFIX rel: <http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX bm: <https://betamasaheft.eu/>
PREFIX pelagios: <http://pelagios.github.io/vocab/terms#>
PREFIX syriaca: <http://syriaca.org/documentation/relations.html#>
PREFIX saws: <http://purl.org/saws/ontology#>
PREFIX snap: <http://data.snapdrgn.net/ontology/snap#>
PREFIX pleiades: <https://pleiades.stoa.org/>
PREFIX wd: <https://www.wikidata.org/>
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
PREFIX t: <http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0>
PREFIX sdc: <https://w3id.org/sdc/ontology#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>

You can also use the API to query the SPARQL endpoint, using https://betamasaheft.eu/api/SPARQL with the query in a parameter q. The results are SPARQL Query Results XML Format, as the one visualized below.

In the Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines you can find the OWLDoc Documentation and a visualization thanks to webVOWL of the current ontology developed with Protégé.

Some examples of the data you are querying

Documentation on Linked Open Data can be found here.

Examples:
Search for female donors: "SELECT ?ms ?person WHERE { ?annotation a bm:donor ; oa:hasBody ?person ; oa:hasTarget ?ms . ?ms a bm:mss . ?person foaf:gender 'female' . } "
Manuscripts with a patron of the imperial family: "SELECT DISTINCT ?manuscript ?patron ?relation ?ruler WHERE{ ?annotation a bm:patron ; oa:hasTarget ?manuscript ; oa:hasBody ?patron . ?manuscript a bm:mss . ?patron snap:hasBond ?bondName . ?bondName rdf:type ?relation ; snap:bond-with ?ruler . ?ruler snap:occupation 'Emperor' . }"
Mountains mentioned in Liturgy manuscripts: "SELECT DISTINCT ?mountain ?manuscript WHERE { ?att oa:hasBody ?mountain ; oa:hasTarget ?manuscript . ?manuscript a bm:mss ; a bm:Liturgy . ?mountain a bm:place ; pleiades:hasFeatureType in <https://betamasaheft.eu/authority-files/mountain> . } LIMIT 50"

The results presented here are visualized with d3sparql

Enter above your XPath 3.0 query to the data. (You can alternatively use the old XPath search page here) Please, use t: namespace for TEI elements. The starting point of any Xpath should be $config:collection-root if you are searching the entire dataset.

NB: if you are a member of the BM GitHub organization and work with Oxygen you may run your XPath Queries directly in your Oxygen project; in this case start the string directly with //TEI.

You can also use, as a cached and short form to point to collections the following variables: $config:collection-rootMS for manuscripts; $config:collection-rootW for Textual Units $config:collection-rootPl for places; $config:collection-rootPr for persons; $config:collection-rootIn for repositories; $config:collection-rootA for authority files.

Examples:
Persons marked up in colophons: $config:collection-rootMS//t:colophon[t:persName]
Manuscripts with at least 26 additions: $config:collection-rootMS//t:additions/t:list/t:item[@xml:id='a26']
Manuscripts with a text marked up as Amharic: $config:collection-rootMS//t:TEI[descendant::t:textLang[@mainLang='am' or @otherLangs='am']]
Manuscripts with additions that contain something tagged Amharic: $config:collection-rootMS//t:TEI[not(contains(@xml:id, 'IHA'))]//t:additions[descendant::t:*[@xml:lang='am']]
Records with the title with the subtype inscriptio: $config:collection-root//t:title[contains(@subtype,'inscriptio')]
Manuscripts that have at least 31 quires: $config:collection-rootMS//t:collation/t:list[count(t:item) ge 31]
Manuscripts where a roleName appears: $config:collection-rootMS//t:roleName
Additons of the type OwnershipNote: $config:collection-rootMS//t:additions/t:list/t:item[t:desc[@type='OwnershipNote']]
Place records revised in 2022: $config:collection-rootPl//t:revisionDesc/t:change[contains(concat(' ', @when, ' '), '2022')]
Work records that contain "Senodos" inside title: $config:collection-rootW//t:titleStmt/t:title[contains(.,'Senodos')]
Works that contain the string "Senodos" somewhere: $config:collection-rootW//*[contains(.,'Senodos')]
Person record which have at least some attribute for birth and death (can be when, notBefore, notAfter) elements and occupation type ruler: $config:collection-rootPr//t:person[t:birth[@*]][t:death[@*]][t:occupation[@type='ruler']]
Manuscripts with miniatures in them: $config:collection-rootMS//t:decoDesc[t:decoNote[@type='miniature']]
Manuscripts with an addition element typed Ownership Note followed by another one with type Supplication: $config:collection-rootMS//t:additions/t:list/t:item[t:desc[@type='OwnershipNote']][following-sibling::t:item[t:desc[@type='Supplication']]]

Here you can differentiate your search by looking at the text of constructed strings from specific portions of the data. You can search for records which have a word occurring in the decoration and another in the content description, for example.















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General
Abreham Adugna2
Denis Nosnitsin23
Dorothea Reule2
Eugenia Sokolinski21
Giulia Casella1
Iosif Fridman1
Irene Roticiani1
Magdalena Krzyzanowska4
Massimo Villa2
Pietro Maria Liuzzo23
Sophia Dege-Müller2
Stéphane Ancel9
Susanne Hummel4
Vitagrazia Pisani3
2021-02-161
2020-02-241
2020-02-251
2020-04-201
2020-04-211
2020-08-2011
2020-11-262
2019-04-011
2019-04-252
2019-05-021
2019-05-311
2019-06-111
2019-06-121
2019-06-132
2019-06-191
2019-06-213
2019-06-262
2019-06-273
2016-05-051
2016-05-1022
2015-01-281
2015-02-052
2015-02-162
2015-02-172
2015-02-183
2015-02-261
2015-04-301
2015-05-033
2015-06-071
2015-07-141
2014-09-241
2014-09-291
2014-10-021
2014-10-142
2014-10-251
2013-02-061
2013-02-181
2013-02-191
2013-04-081
2013-04-291
2013-05-031
2013-05-071
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2013-05-221
2013-07-121
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2013-07-221
2013-08-071
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2011-01-191
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Golden Gospel1
Apocrypha5
Chants2
Christian Literature4
Hagiography7
Homily4
Liturgy1
Missal2
New Testament2
Poetry1
Qǝne3
Rituals and Rites2
Theology1
Translation2
Amharic3
English23
Gǝʿǝz 19
Manuscripts
leather18
other1
textile4
wood23
Ethio-SPaRe23
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deficient7
good16
40 Miracles of Mary1
Dǝggʷā, Part 2, from Easter to the end of the liturgical year1
Dǝggʷā1
Dǝrsāna Mikāʾel “Homiliary for the Monthly Feasts of St Michael”2
Dǝrsān māḥyawi1
Dossier on Za-Mikāʾel ʾAragāwi1
Four Gospels2
Gadla Gabra Krǝstos1
Hagiographic Dossier of St Gabra Manfas Qǝddus1
Hagiographic Dossier of Sts Cyricus and Julitta2
Hagiographic Dossier of Takla Hāymānot1
Hāymānota ʾabaw with Maṣḥafa ṭomār1
Maṣḥafa gǝbra ḥǝmāmāt “Book of the Rite of the Holy Week”1
Maṣḥafa gǝnzat1
Maṣḥafa qǝddāse2
Mǝʿrāf, The Common of the Office1
Ṣalota ʿǝṭān1
Sǝnkǝssār “Synaxarion” for the first half of the year1
Sǝnkǝssār “Synaxarion” for the second half of the year1
Taʾammǝra Gabra Manfas Qǝddus “Miracles of Gabra Manfas Qǝddus”: 1 miracle1
Taʾammǝra ʾIyasus1
Taʾammǝra ʾIyasus “Miracles of Jesus”1
Taʾammǝra ʾIyasus “Miracles of Jesus”: 3 miracles1
Taʾammǝra Māryām "Miracles of Mary"1
Taʾammǝra Māryām2
Taʾammǝra Mikāʾel “Miracles of Michael”: 1 miracle 1
Taʾammǝra Qirqos “Miracles of Cyricus” (6 Miracles)1
Unidentified hymn1
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Ḥaddis Makʷannǝn (of) Māḫdara Māryām1
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    This parchment codex is composed of 229.0 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Dağğāzmāč Sǝbā Gādis (i.e. Subagādis, 1770-1831) donor , with baptismal name Za-Manfas Qǝddus, is mentioned as the donor of the manuscript (s. Additio 1).. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    This parchment codex is composed of 108.0 leaves. It has 5 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1931 E.C. (s. Additio 1).. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    This parchment codex is composed of 209.0 leaves. It has 9 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1800-1850. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    This parchment codex is composed of 104.0 leaves. It has 6 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1800-1900. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-005
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 119.0 leaves. It has 3 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 19th - 20th century (?). Despite the mention of Za-Manfas Qǝddus as the donor (the baptismal name of daǧǧāzmāč Sabāgādis , 1770-1831) and the information in the colophon, the Ms. is palaeographically datable only to a much posterior period, and is probably a copy of a book which was indeed commissioned and donated by Za-Manfas Qǝddus/ Subagadis.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    ʿAddigrat, ʿĀddigrāt Dabra Mankǝrāt Qǝddus Qirqos, AMQ-006
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    AMQ-006
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 179.0 120 52 3 4 leaves. It has 3 main content units in 4 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: . There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-007
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 140.0 leaves. It has 34 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Second half or late 19th cent. (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-008
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 135.0 leaves. It has 3 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: The colophon indicates that the Ms. was completed on the 14th year after the coronation of King Bakāffā, but he ruled only 9 years (1721-30); it contains also two other dates which appear to be incorrect. Despite the information in the colophon, the script does not look so old palaeographically. The Ms. may date into a later period, second half of the 19th cent. The binding (boards covered with tooled leather) appears to be older than the text block. The Ms. (and the colophon) may be a copy of another 18th-cent. Ms. of Hāymānot ʾabaw.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-009
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 112.0 8 90 16 leaves. It has 9 main content units in 3 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th century (?) for quires II-X and XIII-XIV. Quire I (hand a) and quires XI-XII (hand c) were produced later (19th cent.?), and possibly at the same time. 1800-1900 18th century (?) for quires II-X and XIII-XIV Quire I (hand a) and quires XI-XII (hand c) were produced later (19th cent.?), and possibly at the same time.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-010
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 114.0 leaves. It has 17 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: . There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-011
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 164.0 leaves. It has 7 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: According to Additio 1 the Ms. was donated in 1918/19. Additio 1 also mentions ʾAskāla Māryām, the baptismal name of Queen Zawditu (r. 1916-30).. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-012
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 72.0 leaves. It has 13 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 18th - early 19th cent.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-013
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 117.0 leaves. It has 3 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of the 20th cent.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-014
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 123.0 91 32 leaves. It has 9 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th century; Quires XIII-XVI were added probably somewhat later. The first unit is somewhat older than the second. Quires XIII-XVI were added probably somewhat later.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-015
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 99.0 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of 19th cent. Text I-1 was written in a more recent time (the end of 19th cent.?).. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-016
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 140.0 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: . There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-017
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 101.0 leaves. It has 12 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of the 19th cent. (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-018
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 155.0 leaves. It has 6 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Second half of the 18th century (?). The first bifolio of quire I (fols. 2, 9) and quire XXI are of recent time.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-019
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 131.0 leaves. It has 48 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 19th cent. (?). There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-020
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 63.0 leaves. It has 67 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of the 20th cent.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-021
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 49.0 leaves. It has 24 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: s. colophon. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-022
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    This parchment codex is composed of 197.0 leaves. It has 14 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 19th - early 20th cent.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    AMQ-023
    Short Description
    This parchment codex is composed of 146.0 leaves. It has 6 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Second half of the 19th cent.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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