✖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
Help

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Hover on words to see search options.

Double-click to see morphological parsing.

Click on left pointing hands and arrows to load related items and click once more to view the result in a popup.

You can run a simple search which will look in all text indexes. This is the simplest search that we can offer. Check the options below the input box if you want to change the default settings.

Note that you can click on and/or symbols under the search field for additional filters/facets and on to activate the virtual keyboard.

When the results appear you can use facets to narrow your selection. For that, first select the facet (Item type, Author of changes, Keywords, etc.) and then press "refine search results ". Here you can get a list of items given some parameters, like the entity type, without searching for a string. You can play with the filters to restrict the search and you can certainly combine these with a text search. If you know the identifier (ID) of an item (LIT1234name, MS123abc, PRS12345name, etc.) you can paste it here, and you will get it in the results. if you know only a part, eg. LIT20... it will give you all those which match. To reach a given item with its ID, you can also append that to the base URL of the website, https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT1234name and you will be redirected to the correct landing page. If you have at hand the Clavis Aethiopica number of a Textual Unit, e.g. CAe 1234, you can enter it here and the search will point you to that record. We record (unsystematically) corresponding identifiers from other Claves, like CAVT or CANT, here you can select which one you want to look for and search for records pointing to that. We record for each repository information on settlement, region and country. By searching for the identifier of a place the query will look at related places and check for other repositories which may be associated. If you know how to write your XPath, and know the source TEI (available for each file, by appending .xml to the identifier of the record) you will be able to run that query against the db here. Not all possible paths are optimized. Parallel to the XML, also an RDF triple store is maintained by the project. Here you get an interface to the SPARQL endpoint. You can add your SPARQL query and see the results available.
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.

Results do not have facets and are presented as they are requested in the query from the SPARQL response.



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.















Resource type
manuscript34
General
Ashlee Benson1
Daria Elagina1
Denis Nosnitsin21
Dorothea Reule8
Eugenia Sokolinski21
Iosif Fridman4
Jacopo Gnisci1
Jonah Sandford2
Magdalena Krzyzanowska2
Massimo Villa7
Nafisa Valieva1
Pietro Maria Liuzzo21
Ralph Lee3
Stéphane Ancel12
Susanne Hummel1
Vitagrazia Pisani2
2024-02-191
2024-02-201
2024-02-211
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2023-11-271
2023-12-191
2022-05-071
2022-05-081
2022-06-015
2021-02-021
2021-04-011
2021-04-261
2021-04-271
2021-05-031
2021-06-081
2021-06-111
2021-06-231
2021-07-201
2021-11-201
2021-12-101
2020-02-211
2020-02-241
2020-03-131
2020-04-171
2020-04-181
2020-06-172
2020-06-231
2020-06-251
2020-08-201
2020-08-241
2020-11-121
2020-11-231
2020-11-241
2020-11-262
2020-12-251
2019-03-291
2019-04-013
2019-04-171
2019-04-261
2019-06-043
2019-09-181
2019-10-211
2019-11-141
2018-01-112
2018-01-154
2018-01-182
2018-03-281
2018-04-031
2018-06-081
2018-07-121
2018-10-271
2017-05-251
2017-05-271
2017-11-271
2017-11-301
2016-05-1018
2015-02-201
2015-04-101
2015-04-131
2015-04-304
2015-05-031
2015-05-041
2015-05-051
2015-05-281
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2015-06-191
2015-08-071
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2012-03-281
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2011-10-081
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2010-05-201
2010-11-181
2010-11-201
2010-11-251
2010-12-031
2010-12-071
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1
1
1
1
1
Angel1
Annunciation3
Arrest of Jesus1
Baptism of Jesus2
Cross1
Crucifixion of Jesus3
David Beheads Goliath1
Evangelist Portrait3
Flagellation of Jesus1
Flight into Egypt2
God the Father1
Holy Man Portrait2
Holy Men Potrait1
Holy Woman2
Holy Women1
Jesus Christ1
Jesus Heals the Blind1
Moses Receiving Law1
Resurrection of Jesus1
Road to Calvary1
Tempietto3
The Last Supper1
The Sacrifice of Isaac1
The Trinity2
Virgin and Child2
Letter2
dragon1
Empty Cross1
First Solomonic Style1
interlace1
Short Cycle1
Sun and Moon1
Two Thieves1
Leaf string marker3
Leaf tab marker1
arch1
architecture1
bird1
column1
cross2
curtain1
sword1
Modern Period1
Zamana Masāfǝnt3
angel2
Golden Gospel8
Bible14
Chants1
Christian Content2
Christian Literature16
Lectionary2
Legal Document2
Liturgy2
New Testament30
Theology1
Amharic8
English33
Gǝʿǝz 29
Tigrinya 1
Manuscripts
arches1
birds1
building1
columns1
cross1
curtained1
Empty Cross1
interlace1
Leaf string markers1
lintel1
Sun and Moon1
two columns1
Two Thieves1
White thread1
Annunciation3
Arrest of Jesus1
Baptism of Jesus1
Baptism of Jesus1
Christ crowned with thorns, donor1
cross1
Crucifixion of Jesus3
David Beheads Goliath1
Evangelist Portrait1
Flagellation of Jesus1
Flight into Egypt2
God the Father1
Holy Man Portrait2
Holy Men Potrait1
Holy Woman2
Holy Women1
JesusChrist1
Jesus Heals the Blind1
judges those who remain1
Moses Receiving Law1
No item: AT1013Evangelist1
No item: AT1072ExpulsionfromParadise1
No item: AT1075WashingFeet1
No item: AT1091TriumphalEntry1
Resurrection of Jesus1
Road to Calvary1
St John the Evangelist1
St Luke the Evangelist1
St Mark the Evangelist1
St Matthew the Evangelist1
Tempietto3
The Holy Trinity, two donors1
The Last Supper1
The Sacrifice of Isaac1
The Three Magi1
The Trinity1
Virgin and Child1
Virgin Mary and Child1
leather29
metal2
other2
parchment3
silk4
textile10
wood28
Biblioteca Morcelli1
d'Abbadie2
EMIP3
Ethio-SPaRe18
Ethiopic1
Fonds éthiopien2
Manuscrits orientaux2
Oriental6
101
14
141
232
36
complete34
incomplete21
deficient4
good25
other1
Bǝsrāta Mārqos1
Bǝsrāta Mātewos, TituliMatthew1
Book of Joel1
Four Gospels34
Gospel of John2
Gospel of Matthew1
Historical notes and commentary on the Four Gospels1
Introduction to the Gospels3
Old Testament2
Ṣalota kidān1
Theological Letter from the scholars of Azazo to the People of Shewa1
Wangel za-Luqās2
Wangel za-Mārqos2
Wangel za-Mātewos2
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06601
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12001
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14401
14501
14701
15001
15501
16001
16996
17051
17251
17451
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17991
18002
18312
18481
18504
18941
19001
19201
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20001
03901
05301
06001
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13701
13801
14002
15002
16006
16701
16751
16821
17001
17201
17504
17611
17702
18003
18502
18901
19251
19501
1001
1051
1201
1301
681
702
721
803
821
851
902
955
Dağğāzmāč Sǝbā Gādis (i.e. Subagādis, 1770-1831)1
Ḫagos1
Tasabka Madḫǝn1
ራስ፡ ስብሐት፡1
Codex34
Leaf2
11.251
12.751
13.251
132
16.631
1931
2151
2301
2751
2761
2801
2852
2902
2921
2951
3004
3101
3131
3221
3301
331
3401
3451
3501
3541
3621
3701
4201
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yes17
Leaf string markers1
White thread1
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131
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421
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029
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33
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262
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881
1+2171
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11
1231
1351
1441
145.01
1641
165 (Ff. 257-260 and 268r in Macomber Reel 2 and 161 leaves in Macomber Reel 2)1
1662
173.01
1741
183.01
1841
1861
187.01
191.02
1941
197.01
200.01
201.01
203.01
2181
22
222.01
229.01
231+11
2591
263.01
284.01
2871
307.01
41
42.01
4311
72
881
ii + 140 1
ii + 1441
one1
viii + 1251
no31
yes3
ʾAmbasat Kidāna Mǝḥrat1
Bet Muḵāʿ Mikāʾel1
Bibliothèque nationale de France2
British Library6
Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi1
Dabra Maʿār Qǝddǝst Māryām1
Dabra Māʿṣo Qǝddus Yoḥannǝs2
ʾƎndā ʾAbbā Garimā2
Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarchate Library1
Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project3
Fondazione Biblioteca Morcelli - Pinacoteca Repossi di Chiari1
Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies1
Golʿa Dabra Bǝrhān Yoḥannǝs1
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library1
Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa1
Qalāqǝl Māryām Ṣǝyon1
Rossijskaja Nacionalnaja Biblioteka1
Siʿet Qǝddǝst Māryām1
ʿUrā Qirqos2
ʿĀddaqāḥarsi Ṗarāqliṭos1
ʿĀddigrāt Dabra Mankǝrāt Qǝddus Qirqos2
ʿĀddigrāt Madḫāne ʿĀlam1
ʿĀddi Qolqʷāl Giyorgis1
ʾĀndel Qǝddǝst Māryām1
1-1-11/0/0/C1
10r-223v: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.1
1A-1A-1A1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C2
1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C6
1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/J1
Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.1
Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.1
Ruling pattern:1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.1
Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.2
Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.9
Ruling pattern: 1A-1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/J.1
Ruling pattern: 2r-6r: 1A-1A-1A1A-1A1A/0-0/0-0/C.1
The ruling pattern is different for the Canon tables.2
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The ruling pattern is different for the Introduction and the Canon tables.1
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    ʿAddigrat, ʿĀddigrāt Dabra Mankǝrāt Qǝddus Qirqos, AMQ-001
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    AMQ-001
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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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    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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    ʿAddigrat, ʿĀddigrāt Madḫāne ʿĀlam, AMM-001
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    This parchment codex is composed of 203.0 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: Mid 18th cent.-early 19th cent. Dāgǝmāwi Za-Manfas Qǝddus might be identified with the second son of daǧǧāzmāč Sabāgādis (1770-1831), Ḫagos donor (d. 1831). The identification is based on Additiones 1 and 2 in Ms. FBM-002 . . There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarchate Library, EMML 650
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    EMML 650, EMML no. 650, UNESCO 1-6, UNESCO Collection 1, Patriarch's Library 6, EMIP 2751
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    This parchment codex is composed of ii + 144 leaves. It has 5 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th century, 1720/45. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    ʿAdwā, ʾƎndā ʾAbbā Garimā, ʾAbbā Garimā II
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    ʾAbbā Garimā II, ʾAbbā Garimā III, Macomber Abbā Garimā Reel 2, Macomber Abbā Garimā Reel 3, ʾAbbā Garimā 2, HMML no. AG 00002, ʾAbbā Garimā 3, Macomber ʾAbbā Garimā Reel 2.II and Reel 3.I
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    This parchment codex is composed of 431 259 165 (Ff. 257-260 and 268r in Macomber Reel 2 and 161 leaves in Macomber Reel 2) 2 2 2 leaves. It has 113 main content units in 5 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: The main codicological unit of Reel 2 has been tentatively dated on the basis of radiocarbon datation to 390-570 CE notBefore: 0390notAfter: 0570 by Jacques Mercier 390-570 CE 10th century according to Davies and Macomber 4th to 6th century according to Mercier 16th cent. Between 7th and 11th cent. (?) 10th cent.(?). There are The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi, DD-035
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    DD-035, C3-IV-237, 310
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    This parchment codex is composed of 191.0 leaves. It has 20 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: According to the colophon, the Ms. was completed in “the year of the world” 7383 (= 1890/91 A.D.). Additional data in the colophon (the mäṭqǝʿ and ʾabäqte, the year of the Evangelist Luke) correspond to 1891 A.D.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, ʿUrā Qirqos, UM-027
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    UM-027
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    This parchment codex is composed of 263.0 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Mid-14th - mid-15th cent.(?) The earliest king mentioned in Additio 2 is Sayfa ʾĀrʿad (r. 1344-71), but the note may be posterior to his time. Other Additiones mention King Baʾǝda Māryām (r. 1468-78) and King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl (r. 1508-40).. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, ʿUrā Qirqos, UM-050a
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    UM-050a, C3-IV-81 (on the front board)
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    This parchment codex is composed of 42.0 leaves. It has 5 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 14th to early 15th cent.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, ʾĀndel Qǝddǝst Māryām, MA-001
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    MA-001
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    This parchment codex is composed of 284.0 leaves. It has 21 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 17th - mid-18th cent. (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Brescia, , MS 9 III CS
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    MS 9 III CS
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    This parchment codex is composed of 166 164 2 leaves. It has 15 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 1400-1470 (dating on palaeographic grounds) 1400-1470 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Cairo, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies, Eth. 1
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    Eth. 1
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    This parchment codex is composed of leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1925-1974. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Gāntā ʾAfašum, Dabra Maʿār Qǝddǝst Māryām, MQM-002
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    MQM-002
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    This parchment codex is composed of 145.0 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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    Gāntā ʾAfašum, Golʿa Dabra Bǝrhān Yoḥannǝs, BGY-006
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    BGY-006
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    This parchment codex is composed of 183.0 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Second half of 18th century (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gāntā ʾAfašum, Māryām Māy ʾAbʾa, BQM-004
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    BQM-004
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    This parchment codex is composed of 187.0 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of 19th cent.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gāntā ʾAfašum, Siʿet Qǝddǝst Māryām, GMS-002
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    GMS-002
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    This parchment codex is composed of 200.0 leaves. It has 14 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: The age of quires A and B is uncertain, possibly the same as the text quires.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gulo Maḵadā, ʾAmbasat Kidāna Mǝḥrat, AKM-001
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    AKM-001
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    This parchment codex is composed of 201.0 194 7 one leaves. It has 20 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 18th or early 19th century. Quires III, X, XV, XII, with miniatures, were added much later (second half of the 20th cent.). Late 18th or early 19th century. Quires III, X, XV, XXII, with miniatures, were added much later (second 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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    Gulo Maḵadā, Dabra Māʿṣo Qǝddus Yoḥannǝs, MY-006
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    MY-006
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    This parchment codex is composed of 218 leaves. It has 20 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Mid-eighteenth/mid-nineteenth century script.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gulo Maḵadā, Dabra Māʿṣo Qǝddus Yoḥannǝs, MY-008
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    MY-008
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    This parchment codex is composed of 144 leaves. It has 13 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late fourteenth/early fifteenth century, probably 1382-1412. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gulo Maḵadā, ʿĀddaqāḥarsi Ṗarāqliṭos, AP-003
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    AP-003, C3-IV-6
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    This parchment codex is composed of 222.0 leaves. It has 11 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late 19th cent.(?) The Ms. is difficult for dating.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Gulo Maḵadā, ʿĀddi Qolqʷāl Giyorgis, AQG-003
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    AQG-003
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    This parchment codex is composed of 191.0 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: First half of the 16th century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 508
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    BL Oriental 508, Wright cat. XLIV, Wright 44
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    This parchment codex is composed of 287 leaves. It has 14 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There are The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 512
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    BL Oriental 512, Wright cat. XXXVIII, Wright 38
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    This parchment codex is composed of 135 leaves. It has 12 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds) according to William Wright. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 513
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    BL Oriental 513, Wright cat. XXXIX, Wright 39
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    This parchment codex is composed of 1+217 leaves. It has 17 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 514
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    BL Oriental 514, Wright cat. XL, Wright 40
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    This parchment codex is composed of 1+226 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 517
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    BL Oriental 517, Wright cat. XLII, Wright 42
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    This parchment codex is composed of 123 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    London, British Library, BL Oriental 519
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    BL Oriental 519, Wright cat. XLIII, Wright 53
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    This parchment codex is composed of 231+1 leaves. It has 15 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 2
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    BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 2
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    This parchment codex is composed of 166 leaves. It has 11 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: . There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 47
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    BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 47
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    This parchment codex is composed of 186 leaves. It has 12 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: . There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 30
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    Weiner Codex 30
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    This parchment codex is composed of ii + 140 leaves. It has 5 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: late nineteenth/early twentieth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 353
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    Weiner Codex 353
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    This parchment codex is composed of viii + 125 leaves. It has 12 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Ḫǝdar 1943 EC = November 1950. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Saint Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacionalnaja Biblioteka, RNB Ef. n.s. 17
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    RNB Ef. n.s. 17, RNB Efiopsk. 17, Turaev cat. I.25
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    This parchment codex is composed of 88 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1800-1894. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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    Sāʿsiʿ Ṣaʿdā ʾƎmbā, Bet Muḵāʿ Mikāʾel, BMQM-006
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    BMQM-006
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    This parchment codex is composed of 173.0 leaves. It has 15 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: After 1761? Additio 5 indicates that the church of Bet Muḫaʿ Mikāʾel was founded during the 6th year of the reign of King ʾIyoʾas (=1761 A.D.). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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    Sāʿsiʿ Ṣaʿdā ʾƎmbā, Qalāqǝl Māryām Ṣǝyon, QS-005
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    QS-005
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    This parchment codex is composed of 307.0 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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    ʿĀdwā, ʾƎndā ʾAbbā Garimā, ʾAbbā Garimā I
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    ʾAbbā Garimā I, Macomber Abbā Garimā Reel 1, C2-IV-30, Abba Garima 1, HMML no. AG 00001, ʾAbbā Garimā 2, HMML no. AG 00002, ʾAbbā Garimā 3
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    This parchment codex is composed of 184 174 4 7 1 1 leaves. It has 68 main content units in 5 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: The main codicological unit has been tentatively dated on the basis of radiocarbon datation to 530-660 CE notBefore: 0530notAfter: 0660 by Jacques Mercier 10th cent.(?) according to Macomber 6th or 7th cent.(?) according to Mercier 11th cent.(?) 10th cent.(?) 10th cent.(?) 10th cent.(?). There are The description does not include a collation of the quires.
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