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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.















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There are 201 entities matching your text query for "ንጽሕፍ" with the parameters shown at the right. (searched: ንጽሕፍ)

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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.

... 5raበስመ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ወመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ፩አምላክ፡ ንጽሕፍ᎓ በረድኤተ᎓ እግዚአብሔር። ወበሠናይ᎓ ሀብቱ᎓ ...

placespersonsrelations

List of related persons

No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
37, EMIP 691
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iv + 300 leaves. It has 7 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.

...ናይ፡ ከመ፡ ዘይሰቲ፡ ነጥበ፡ ማይ፡ እምቀላይ፡ ባሕር፡ ዐቢይ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ኅዳጠ፡ እምዜናሁ፡ ለሕዝቅኤል፡ ነቢይ፡ ወልደ፡ ቡዝ፡ ካ...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
42, EMIP 696
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iii + 113 leaves. It has 7 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Eighteenth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...፡ መለኮት፡ ዘአሐተ፡ ይሰግድ፡ እምኀበ፡ አስብእ፡ ወመላእክት፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ እንከ፡ ዘንተ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ዘይሠመይ፡ አርጋኖነ፡ ውዳሴ፡ ...

placespersonsrelations

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Signatures
45, EMIP 699
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of vi + 134 leaves. It has 6 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late-seventeenth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

ናሁ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ አስማቲሆሙ፡ ለመንፍቃን፡ ሰባልዮስ፡ ይቤ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ወመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ፩ገጽ፡ ንሕነ፡ ንቤ፡ ፫ገጽ፡ ፩ራእይ፡ ...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
50, EMIP 704
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 42 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late-sixteenth century. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ በረድኤተ፤ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለብእሴ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ወልደ፡ ቴዎዶስዮስ፡ ንጉሠ፡ ቍስጥ...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
51, EMIP 705
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of ii + 121 leaves. It has 11 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Nineteenth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

ናሁ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ አስማቲሆሙ፡ ለመናፍቃን፡ ሰባልዮስ፡ ይቤ፤ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ወመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ፩ገጽ፡ ናሁ፡ ንቤ፡ ፫ቱ፡ ገጽ፡ ፩ራዕይ...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
57, EMIP 711
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iv + 105 leaves. It has 8 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 includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ እንከ፡ መቅድመ፡ ሰይፈ፡ ሥላሴ፡ ዘ፯ዕለታት፡ ተማኅፀንኩ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ወመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ በከመ፡ አተውክ...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
82, EMIP 736
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iv + 154 leaves. It has 126 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 includes a collation of the quires.

ወእምዝ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ታሪከ፡ መንግሥቱ፡ ለንጉሥነ፡ ናዖድ፡ ወገብረ፡ መቅድመ፡ ከተማሁ፡ ዘከረመ፡ በወጅ፡ ዕ...

placespersonsrelations

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Signatures
84, EMIP 738
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of ii + 73 leaves. It has 1 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 includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ሰዓታት፡ ዘይሰመይ፡ ግብረ፡ ሌሊት፡ ዘደረሰ፡ አባ፡ጊዮርጊስ፡ ዘጋስጫ፡ ወእምዝ፡ ትብል፡ መዝሙር፡...

placespersonsrelations

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No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
85, EMIP 739
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of ii + 129 leaves. It has 10 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Twentieth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ጸዋትወ፡ ሐሳብ፡ እኂዘነ፡ እምነ፡ መጥቅዕ፡ ወአበቅቴ፡ እስከ፡ ጥንተ፡ ዮን፡ ወካልዓኒሁ። ይቤ፡ መቅድመ፡ ኵ...

placespersonsrelations

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Signatures
92, EMIP 1925
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of ii + 74 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Early-twentieth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ብሔር፡ መንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ለፈጽሞ፡ ገድል፡ መጽንዒ፡ (1v) ንጽሕፍ፡ ገድሎ፡ ለአቡነ፡ ክቡር፡ ጻድቅ፡ ወኄር፡ ትሩፈ፡ ኵሉ፡ ...

placespersonsrelations

List of related persons

No persons related to this manuscripts are known.

Signatures
95, EMIP 1928
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of i + 93 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ሐሳብ፡ ዘእምፍጥረተ፡ ዓለም፡ እስከ፡ ተፍጻሜተ፡ ዓለም፡ [the text is effaced at this po...

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MS 6, MS EMML no. 1284, IES 00006, EAP286-1-1-342
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This parchment codex is composed of 133 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th century, . The description does not include a collation of the quires.

...የ፡ መላኮት፡ ዘአሐተ፡ ይሰግድ፡ እምኀበ፡ ሰብእ፡ ወመላእክት። ንጽሕፍ፡ እንከ፡ ዘንተ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ዘይሰመይ፡ አርጋኖነ፡ ውዳሴ፡ ...

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Mekane Yesus Seminary 17, EMIP 617
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This parchment codex is composed of iv + 54 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Twentieth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ በረድኤተ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ኦ፡ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለቅዱስ፡ ብእሴ፡ እግዚአብሔር...

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Mekane Yesus Seminary 21, EMIP 621
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This parchment codex is composed of ii + 204 leaves. It has 6 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 includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ መቅድመ፡ ድጓ፡ በረድኤተ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ አሜን። እስመ፡ ዝንቱ፡ መጽሐፍ፡ መንፈቁ፡ ተረክበ፡ እመጻ...

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Mekane Yesus Seminary 38, EMIP 638
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This parchment codex is composed of i + 165 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Late-eighteenth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...የ፡ መለኮት፡ ዘአሐተ፡ ይሰገድ፡ እምኀበ፡ ሰብእ፡ ወመላእክት፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ እንከ፡ ዘንተ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ዘይሰመይ፡ አርጋኖነ፡ ውዳሴ፡ ...

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Mekane Yesus Seminary 50, EMIP 650
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This parchment codex is composed of iv + 92 leaves. It has 5 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Twentieth century. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ዝክረ፡ ውዳሴሃ፡ ለእምነ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ሠምራ፡ ዘወሐባ፡ ኪዳነ፡ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ንጉ...

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EMML 1126, MS EMML no. 1126, UNESCO 5-36, UNESCO Collection 5, Holy Trinity 36, EMIP 2935
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This parchment codex is composed of 115 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1850-1950. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ንጽሕፍ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ታሪክ፡ ዘጋላ፡ ወራዕየ፡ ንጉሥ፡ ልብነ፡ ድንግል፡ ዘርአየ፡ በእንተ፡ ሀገሩ፡ ከመ፡ ትትኰነን፡ በእደ፡ ተንባላት፡ ...

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EMML 1195, MS EMML no. 1195, UNESCO 5-26, UNESCO Collection 5, Holy Trinity 26, EMIP 2925
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This parchment codex is composed of 138 leaves. It has 3 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 5 Ṭerr 1959 EC. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ንዌጥን ፡ በረድኤተ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ ሎቱ ፡ ስብሐት ፡ ንጽሕፍ ፡ ወድርሳናት ፡ በእንተ ፡ ክብረ ፡ ሃይማኖተ ፡ ክርስቲያን ፡ ር...

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MS 25, MS EMML no. 1056, UNESCO 5-5, UNESCO Collection 5, Holy Trinity 5, EMIP 2906
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This codex is composed of ii + 174 leaves. It has 11 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th century, 1767-1768. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ናሁ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ በረድኤተ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ዜና፡ አርእስተ፡ ሐሳብ፡ ዘእምፍጥረተ፡ ዓለም፡ እስከ፡ ተፍጻሜተ፡ ዓመተ፡ ዓለም። ...

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MS 55, MS EMML no. 1122, UNESCO 5-23, UNESCO Collection 5, Holy Trinity 23, EMIP 2922
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This parchment codex is composed of 47 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1924 EC. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ንጽሕፍ፡ በረድኤተ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለቅዱስ፡ ብእሲ፡ እግዚአብሒር፡ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ። ወልደ፡ ...

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Rudulph Codex 1, EMIP 368
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This parchment codex is composed of 90 leaves. It has 83 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 includes a collation of the quires.

...በትሥልስት፡ አቀድም፡ በረድኤተ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ሎቱ፡ ስብሐት፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ዘይደሉ፡ ሥርዓተ፡ ቅኔ፡ መልእተ፡ ክህነት፡ ዘይተፈቀድ፡...

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A short history of the kings Lǝbna Dǝngǝl, Galāwdewos, Minās and Śarḍa Dǝngǝl.
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A short text in the style of the "Short chronicles", telling about the reigns of the 16th-century kings Lǝbna Dǝngǝl, Galāwdewos, Minās, and Śarḍa Dǝngǝl.

ንጽሕፍ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለንጉሥነ፡ ኦርቶዶክሳዊ፡ ወናግ፡ ሰገድ፡ በይሰመይ፡ ወኮነ፡ ብእሲ፡ ኄረ፡ ወመፍቀሬ፡ ጥባብ፡ እግዚአብሔራዊ፡ ወእምአ...

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AM-002, C3-IV-359
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This parchment codex is composed of 183 leaves. It has 30 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: . There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

ንጽሕፍ፡ ሥርዓተ፡ አበው፡ ዘአስተናበሩ፡ አበው፡ ቅዱሳን፡ እለ፡ በደብር፡ ወበአታት፡ ...

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AM-003, C3-IV-363
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This parchment codex is composed of 114.0 2 8 6 4 88 6 leaves. It has 64 main content units in 6 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 18th cent. (?). Quires A-III and B are of more recent time (19th cent.?).. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... 20ra በስመ፡... ንጽሕፍ፡ በረድኤተ፡ ሀ...

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SSB-005
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This parchment codex is composed of 136.0 leaves. It has 2 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 includes a collation of the quires.

...rb ls.1-5): በስመ፡<...> ሥርዓተ፡ ቤተ፡ ክርስቲያን፨ ንጽሕፍ፨ ፨ ወሕጋጋቲሃ፡ ወ...

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MHG-005
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This parchment codex is composed of 39.0 leaves. It has 2 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 19th cent. (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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KTM-012
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This parchment codex is composed of 78.0 leaves. It has 15 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 19th cent. (?). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

በስመ፡’’… ንጽሕፍ፡ መቅድመ፡ ሰይፈ፡ ሥላሴ፡ ዘ፯ዕለታት፡ ተማኅፀንኩ፡ ብክሙ፡ አብ፡ ወወ...

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MKL-005
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This parchment codex is composed of 138.0 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: The colophon mentions King Takla Giyorgis (r. 1779-84/1788-89/1794-95/1795-96/1798-99/1800) and gabaz Dabra Ṣǝyon.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...በስመ፡ አብ፡ ወወልድ፡ ወመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ፩ምላክ [sic.]፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ደብዳቤ፡ ጨሐትና፡ መገብ፡ አድ፡ ...

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MMA-009
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This parchment codex is composed of 140.0 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Sane 1887 E.C. (= June/July 1895 A.D.) (s. the colophon), during the time of rās Mängäša Yoḥannǝs, governor of Tǝgray 1889-1906, and daǧǧāzmāč ʾArʾaya. Mämḥǝre Abrǝha was the qes gabaz of the church (s. Additio 1).. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
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SBP, Ms. orient. oct. 1270
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 41 leaves. It has 9 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Mid-14th mid-15th century (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

...ኤተ፡ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፨ ንጽሕፍ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለቅዱስ፡ ብእሴ፡ እግዚኣብሔር፡ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ...

... እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክርስቶስ፨ ወእምዝ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ተአምሪሃ፡ ለእግዝእትነ፡ ማርያም፡ ወላዲተ፡ አምላክ፡

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Book of Clement
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... በስመ፡ አብ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ዘንተ፡ ነገረ፡ ዘተናገሮ፡ ጴጥሮስ፡ ...

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Caeremoniale sacerdotum
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ንጽሕፍ፡ ዘይደሉ፡ እምሥርዓተ፡ ቅኔ፡ መላእክት፡ ዘይትፈቀድ፡ በውስተ፡ ጸሎት፡

stubworksLIT4275ChronAmdSTEI
Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon
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Account of campaigns of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I against the Muslims of South-East Ethiopia. According to , originally it was not a real historical work, but a homily to read in the church, with a propagandist purpose.

...ተ፡5 ዘኮነ፡ cበበ፡6 ዘመኑ፡c7 ንጽሕፍ፡ dበበ፡8 መትሎ፡ d9 ውስተ፡ አንቀጽ፡ ዘስንእው።10 ወ...

ምዕራፍ፡1 ፵።2 ወካዕበ፡3 ንጽሕፍ፡4 ነገረ፡5 ዘኃደግናሁ፡6 ውስተ፡ ርእስ፡ እምአርእስተ፡ ምንባባት።7 ወአቲዎ፡ ንጉሥ፡ ...

... እምቅድመ፡ ኵነታት።b13 ወእምዝ፡ ንጽሕፍ፡ ግብረ፡14 <ገብትአ>፡15 ስሑብ፡16 ኃቤሁ።17

stubworksLIT3951ChronSusenyosTEI
Chronicle of Susǝnyos
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ምዕራፍ፡ ፩። ንጽሕፍ፡ ዜናሁ፡ ለ ንጉሥ፡ ኃያል፡ መዋኢ፡ ...

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MS EMML no. 7469
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 741 leaves. It has 29 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1900-1919. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ንቀድም ፡ በረድኤተ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ ንጽሕፍ ፡ ገድለ ፡ አባ ፡ መቃርስ ፡ እስክንድራዊ ፡ ወዜናሁ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ ይጸግወነ ፡...

ንቀድም ፡ በረድኤተ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ ልዑለ ፡ ስብሐት ፡ ንጽሕፍ ፡ ገድለ ፡ ሰማዕት ፡ ጽኑዕ ፡ ብፁዓዊ ፡ አብርሀም ፡ ጸራቢ ፡...

ንጽሕፍ ፡ መጽሐፈ ፡ ዜናሆሙ ፡ ለአበው ፡ ወነገሮሙ ፡ ዘተስእሉ ፡ በበይናቲሆሙ ፡ ዘቦቱ ፡ በቍዔት ፡ ወሠናይት ፡ ለዘአንበቦ ፡ ...

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Cod. Etiop. 1
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 73 leaves. It has 0 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Copying date: 17thcentury. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...በከርሠ᎓ ደመና᎓ ማየ᎓ ባሕር᎓ ዘያመጽእ፨ …(fol. 1vb)… ንጽሕፍ᎓ እንከ᎓ ዜና᎓ ኂሩቱ᎓ ወስነ᎓ ገድሉ᎓ ወጽንዓ᎓ ኃይሉ᎓…

...ርሠ᎓ ደመና᎓ ማየ᎓ ባሕር᎓ ዘያመጽእ፨ …(fol. 1vb)… ንጽሕፍ᎓ እንከ᎓ ዜና᎓ ኂሩቱ᎓ ወስነ᎓ ገድሉ᎓ ወጽንዓ᎓ ኃይሉ᎓ ...

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Cod. Etiop. 2
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This codex is composed of leaves. It has 0 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Copying date: A note on fol. 75v (bottom margin, left side), after Text I, reads, “Contuli cum protographo Wanslebiano m. Februar. A.d. 1695 [signature]”. Another note, on the right side, reads, “Absolvi. d. ix Sept. 92. [Signature] Francof. ad Moenum”. Therefore, the writing of Text I was completed on 9 September 1692, the collation of the text with the exemplar manuscript of Wansleben was finished in February 1695. The colophon on fol. 87r reads, “Absolvi xxviii. Febr. A. clᴐlᴐcxcv. [Signature]”; the indicated date 28 February 1695 is the time when the writing of the last text was completed.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ol. Fol. 2r:በስመ᎓አብ᎓ወወልድ᎓ወመንፈስ᎓ቅዱስ᎓፩አምላክ።ንጽሕፍ᎓መዝሙ᎓ዘተጋብአ᎓ብእሲ᎓ምስኪን᎓እንዘ᎓ጸያፍ᎓ውእቱ᎓ወላዕላዐ...

... በስመ ᎓ አብ ᎓ ወወልድ ᎓ ወመንፈስ ᎓ ቅዱስ ᎓ ፩አምላክ። ንጽሕፍ ᎓ መዝሙ ᎓ ዘተጋብአ ᎓ ብእሲ ᎓ ምስኪን ᎓ እንዘ ᎓ ጸ...

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Cod. Etiop. Add. 3
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This codex is composed of 138 leaves. It has 0 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Copying date: Most probably 1667-82, the reign of King Yoḥannǝs (I), mentioned on fol. 125vb. . There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

... አካል፡ ዘበኢተባርዮ፨ዘሎቱ፡ ለባሕቲቱ᎓ይደሉ᎓ሰጊድ፡ ወተጋንዮ፨ንጽሕፍ፡ ገድለ፡ ጻማሁ፡ ለአቡነ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ብፁዓዊ፨ተክለ፡ አብ፡ ...

...ተባ ር ዮ፨ ዘሎቱ፡ ለ ባ ሕቲቱ ᎓ ይደሉ᎓ ሰጊድ፡ ወተጋንዮ፨ ንጽሕፍ፡ ገድለ፡ ጻማሁ፡ ለአቡነ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ብፁዓዊ፨ ተክለ፡ አብ፡...

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