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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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.

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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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There are 663 entities matching your text query for "አባ" with the parameters shown at the right. (searched: አባ)

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Signatures
Aeth. 110
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 100 leaves. It has 37 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1800-1899. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

... መምሕራን። ዘእምድኅሬሁ፡ ስዩማን፨ አባ፡ ኤልሳዕ፡ ፊልጶስ፨ ሕዝቅያስ፡ ...

አባ፡ ተክለ፡ ጽዮን፡ ወልዱ፡ ለተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት፡ ዘወጠቅ። መኑ፡ ዘደመሮ፡ ለብርሃን፡ ውስተ፡ ጽልመት፡ ብርዕ፡ ዘፈተነ፡ ...

placespersonsrelations

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Signatures
MY-010
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 129 leaves. It has 30 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Beginning of the 20th century, before 1944.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ዱስ፡ ወበጹዕ፡ ወንጹሕ፡ አባ፡ ሰላማ፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ ዘብሔረ፡ ኢትዮጵያ፡ ...

4 in t:roleName
Signatures
BL Oriental 711, Wright cat. CCLXXXVI, Wright 286
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 102 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1450-1500 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.
2 in seg
ab
Signatures
BL Oriental 761, Wright cat. CCLXVIII, Wright 268
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 98 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1700-1799 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ዜነዉ፡ በእንተ፡ አባ፡ እንጦንስ፡ ሶበ፡ ሐለየ፡ ማዕምቀ፡ ጥበቡ፡ ለእግዚአብ፡ ወትእዛዛቲ፡ ሰአለ፡ ወይቤ፡

...ዕልዎ፡ ኀበ፡ ግዕዝ፡ አቡነ፡ ሊቀ፡ ኤጲስ፡ ቆጶሳት፡ ዘአዜብ፡ አባ፡ ሰላማ፡

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Signatures
MY-011
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 113 leaves. It has 18 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1889-1913.. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ወላዲተ፡ አምላክ፡ ዘደረሰ፡ አባ፡ ሕርያቆስ፡ ጳጳስ፡ ዘሀገረ፡ ብሕነሳ፡ ...

placespersonsrelations

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1 in incipit
Signatures
Rudulph Codex 4, EMIP 371
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 97 leaves. It has 48 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፡ ድርሳን፡ ዘኅሩይ፡ ዘብፁዕ፡ ወቅዱስ፡ አባ፡ ሰላማ፡ ዘብሔረ፡ ኢትዮጵያ፡ ዘይትነበብ፡ በላዕለ፡ በድን፡ እምድኅረ፡ ...

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stubworksLIT3598MiracleTEI
Miracle of Mary: Miracle of three Arabs in Rīf and Salomon, abbot of Kalamon
CAe 3598Clavis Aethiopica, an ongoing repertory of all known Ethiopic Textual Units. Use this to refer univocally to a specific text in your publications. Please note that this shares only the numeric part with the Textual Unit Record Identifier.
1 in ab
Abstract

... ዘታስተርኢ፡ ውስተ፡ ሥዕል፡ ዘሀለወት፡ በደብረ፡ ቅዱስ፡ አባ፡ ሳሙኤል፡ ዘቀልሞን፣ ወ...

stubworksLIT5103MiracleHawiTEI
Miracle of Mary: The composition of the Maṣḥafa ḥawi by Patriarch Gabriel ibn Tarīk
CAe 5103Clavis Aethiopica, an ongoing repertory of all known Ethiopic Textual Units. Use this to refer univocally to a specific text in your publications. Please note that this shares only the numeric part with the Textual Unit Record Identifier.
1 in t:ab
Abstract

... ወኮነ፡ በመዋዕለ፡ አብ፡ ክቡር፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ አባ፡ ገብርኤል፡ ወልደ፡ ተሪክ፡ ወበጽሖ፡ ለዝንቱ፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳ...

Signatures
SSB-004
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 144.0 leaves. It has 2 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: Quires II-XIX date to 1800-72 since Metropolitan Atnatewos (in tenure 1869-1876) and King Yoḥannǝs IV (r. 1872-89) are mentioned in Additio 2. Quire I originates from a different, older Four Gospels book dating possible to 1550-1650. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ንጉሥነ፡ ዮሐንስ፡ ወጳጳስነ፡ አባ፡ አትናተዎስ፡ ወበዓለ፡ ጕልቱሂ፡ ደጃች፡ ማሩ፡ ዘሠረቃ፡ ...

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Signatures
Aeth. 29
Short Description
This paper codex is composed of 6 2 8 4 6 26 4 leaves. It has 28 main content units in 7 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 1500-1599 1400-1499 1500-1599 1500-1699 1508-1540 1550-1559 1552. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ሰላም፡ ለከ፡ አባ፡ አ...

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stubworksLIT1234CatenaTEI
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
CAe 1234Clavis Aethiopica, an ongoing repertory of all known Ethiopic Textual Units. Use this to refer univocally to a specific text in your publications. Please note that this shares only the numeric part with the Textual Unit Record Identifier.
1 in t:foreign
Abstract
This text contains scholia from the Church Fathers John Chrysostom, Eusebius of Caesarea (አውሳንዮስ፡), Sāwiros, Cyril I, Epiphanius of Salamis, Simeon the Stylite, Gregory of Nazianzos, Clement I, Benjamin of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, Athanasius, Hippolytus (አባ፡ ሊጦስ፡) and Jacob of Sarug, anonymous explanations and the author's own interpretations. It was translated from Arabic not later than the 16th century.
Signatures
Mekane Yesus Seminary 34, EMIP 634
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of vi + 305 leaves. It has 23 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1974 E.C.. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ያም፡ ድንግል፡ ወላዲተ፡ አምላክ፡ ዘደረሰ፡ በመንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ አባ፡ ሕርያቆስ፡ ኤጲስ፡ ቆጶስ፡ ዘሀገረ፡ ብህንሳ፡

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Signatures
DD-006, C3-IV-221, 508
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 255.0 5 2 100 48 leaves. It has 12 main content units in 4 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 19th cent.? 19th cent.? According to Additio 2, the main production unit was donated in the time of King King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl (r. 1508-40). 18th cent.. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... እድ፡ በዳሞ፡ አባ፡ ሳሙኤል። ወቀስ፡ ገበዝ፡ አባ፡ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ። ወረቅ...

... አባ፡ ሳሙኤል። ወቀስ፡ ገበዝ፡ አባ፡ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ። ወረቅመአሰራ፡ አባ፡ ሀብተ፡ ኢየሱስ።...

...ሙኤል። ወቀስ፡ ገበዝ፡ አባ፡ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ። ወረቅመአሰራ፡ አባ፡ ሀብተ፡ ኢየሱስ። ወቅንታን፡ አባ፡ ...

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BL Additional 19892, Wright cat. CLI, Wright 151
Short Description
This paper codex is composed of 217 leaves. It has 16 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1640 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There are The description does not include a collation of the quires.

... ቅዳሴ፡ ማርያም፡ ዘቅዱስ፡ አባ፡ ሕርያቆስ፡ ጳጳስ፡ ዘሀገረ፡ ብህንሳ። ...

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Aeth. 84, Delorme 4
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 122 leaves. It has 87 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1600-1699. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ትጼውዕዎ፡ እንዘ፡ ትብሉ፡ አባ፡ ወአቡነ፨

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BnF Éthiopien 67, Éth. 61
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 176 leaves. It has 24 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1700-1799. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.
1 in q
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MM-004
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 95.0 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 17th century (?).. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ስንክሳር፡ ፪፡ ገድለ፡ አቡነ፡ ኤዎስጣቴዎስ፡ ገድለ፡ አባ፡ ክቡር፡ ኮከበ፡ ገዳም፡ ብእሴ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ...

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Marwick Codex 5, EMIP 9
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iii + 170 leaves. It has 11 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.
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BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 148
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 231 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1650-1750. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ዝመጽሐፍ᎓ ይቤ᎓ ገብሩ᎓ አባ᎓ ሰሎሞን᎓ ወወልዱ᎓ አባ᎓ ሰንበት᎓ ወአነሂ᎓ በንዋየ᎓ ዘአጥረይኩ᎓

ዝመጽሐፍ᎓ ይቤ᎓ ገብሩ᎓ አባ᎓ ሰሎሞን᎓ ወወልዱ᎓ አባ᎓ ሰንበት᎓ ወአነሂ᎓ በንዋየ᎓ ዘአጥረይኩ᎓

stubworksLIT1644HomilyTEI
Homily on the Deceased
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ድርሳን፡ ዘቅዱስ፡ ወብፁዕ፡ አባ፡ ሰላማ፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ ዘብሔረ፡ ኢትዮጵያ። ዝንቱ፡ ዘይትነበብ፡ ላዕለ፡ ምውታን፡ እምድኅረ፡ ጸ...

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AP-029, C3-IV-65
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 78.0 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: The colophon contains the date 1914 year of mercy (= 1921/22 A.D.). notBefore: 1921notAfter: 1922 But this date disagrees with the other information provided; the colophon tells that the Ms. was written in the time of King Mǝnilǝk II (r. 1889-1913), Patriarch Cyril V of Alexandria (in tenure 1874-1927) and Metropolitan Ṗeṭros (in tenure 1881-1917).. There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ብር። [] ተጽሕፈ፡ በዘመነ፡ አቡነ፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ አባ፡ ቄርሎስ፡ ወብፁዕ፡...

...ርሎስ፡ ወብፁዕ፡ ጳጳስ፡ አባ፡ ጴጥሮስ፡ ወበዘመነ፡ ንጉሥነ፡ ምኒልክ፡ በ፶፻{ወ}፭፻፡ ...

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BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 22
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 218 leaves. It has 8 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1400-1499. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

... አቀበኒ᎓ ወልደ᎓ አባ᎓ ተአምኖ᎓ ወልደ᎓ ሽታ᎓ ወልደ᎓ ገርሴም᎓ እምነገደ᎓ ፈላ...

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Mekele Mikael 129
Short Description
This paper codex is composed of viii + 790 leaves. It has 1 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1934. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

... the seal of ownership (in blue ink) of አባ ዮሐንስ ጳጳስ ዘአክሱም ወዘቍሎን እድያማተ ትግራይ, Ab...

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Miracle of Mary: ʾAbbā Sāmuʾel of Wāli is lifted up while reciting the Wǝddāse Māryām
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... ወአንቀልቀለ፡ ምድር፡ እምመሰረቱ፣ ወይነብር፡ ውስቴቱ፡ አባ፡ ሳሙኤል፡ ወተለዓለ፡ እምምድር፡ መጠነ፡ እመት። ...

stubworksLIT5185PrayerHemamBudaTEI
Ṣalot baʾǝnta hǝmāma budā
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... ወፈድፋደ፡ እምኆፃ፡ ዘባሕ፡ አባ፡ አባ፡ ተኰነነ፡ ጸሎትከ፡ ይኩ ህገፋ፡ ወወልታ፡ አባ፡ ጸ...

... ወፈድፋደ፡ እምኆፃ፡ ዘባሕ፡ አባ፡ አባ፡ ተኰነነ፡ ጸሎትከ፡ ይኩ ህገፋ፡ ወወልታ፡ አባ፡ ጸሊ፡ በ...

... ዘባሕ፡ አባ፡ አባ፡ ተኰነነ፡ ጸሎትከ፡ ይኩ ህገፋ፡ ወወልታ፡ አባ፡ ጸሊ፡ በእንቲአነ፡ ጸሎትከ፡ ወትረ፡ ይብጽሐነ፡ ...

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Weiner Codex 56
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iv + 164 leaves. It has 25 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century (reign of Mǝnilek II, 1868-1913). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ህ፡ መምሬ፡ ስመኝ። አቶ፡ በርሶማ፡፦ ደብተራ፡ ዱባለ፡ በሻህ፡ አባ፡ ሉሜ፡፦ አቶ፡ ታፈሰ፡፦ ባሻ፡ እንደርሶ፡፦ አቶ፡ አረጋኸ...

...ይም፡ የፋሌው፡ መምሬ፡ ወሰኔ። ያባቴ፡ ወልደ፡ አረጋይ፡ ልጅ፡ አባ፡ ተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት። ዳኛው፡ ግራዝማች፡ ባንጃው። ...

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stubworksLIT1526GadlaZTEI
Gadla Zamikāʾel ʾAragāwi
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KRZKinefe-Rigb Zelleke 1975. ‘Bibliography of the Ethiopic Hagiographical Traditions’, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 13/2 (1975), 57–102. 19 [check the Clavis Clavium]
BHOBibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis 96 [check the Clavis Clavium]
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አዕረፈ፡ አባ፡ ዮሐኒ፡ አመ፡ ፱ለግንቦት፡ ወአቀመ፡ ህየንቴሁ፡ አባ፡ ከመ፡ ይኩን፡ ኖላዌ፡ ዘሙ...

...አዕረፈ፡ አባ፡ ዮሐኒ፡ አመ፡ ፱ለግንቦት፡ ወአቀመ፡ ህየንቴሁ፡ አባ፡ ከመ፡ ይኩን፡ ኖላዌ፡ ዘሙ፡ ዘኢየሱስ፡ ...

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Weiner Codex 24
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iv + 143 leaves. It has 11 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.

... ዝንቱ፡ መጽሐፍ፡ ዘጸሐፎ፡ አባ።ኂሩት፡ ወልደ፡ ሐና፡ በ፲፮፲፫፡ ዓም፡ ዘምረ፡ ተጻፈ፡ ...

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Bodleian Bruce 86, Dillmann cat. XVI, Dillmann 16
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of iii + 218 leaves. It has 90 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1686 (internal-date). There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ፈሳዊ፡ እምዘ፡ አስተጋብአ፡ አብ፡ ቅዱስ፡ ወትሩፍ፡ መንፈሳዊ፡ አባ፡ ሚካኤል፡ ኤጲስ፡ ...

ተብህለ፡ አባ፡ ሚካኤል፡ ዘሀገረ፡ ድምያጥ፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ እሎንቱ፡ ሕፁረ፡ ቀኖናተ፡ አስተጋብአ፡ ዘውእቶሙ፡ ፫መጻሕፍት፡ ...

stubworksLIT6160DersanaGalawdewosTEI
Dǝrsana Galāwdewos
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... ድርሳን: ዘነበበ: አቡነ: ቅዱስ: ክቡር: በዘዚአሁ: ጾታ: አባ: ቴዎድሮስ: ሊቀ: ጳጳሳት: ዘሀገረ: አንጾኪያ: በእንተ:...

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AP-003, C3-IV-6
Short Description
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.

... ኃይለ፡ ሥላሴ፡ ወጳጳስነ፡ አባ፡ ይስሐቅ፡ ወሀገረ፡ ገዝ፡ ፊተውራሪ፡ ወንዱ፡ የቤተ፡ ጳራ...

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BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 80
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 155 leaves. It has 24 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1350-1500. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

... ቤ፡ እንዘ፡ ሀሎ፡ አሐተ፡ ዕለ ተ፡ በውስተ፡ ጸሎት፡ አባ፡ መ ቃርዮስ፡ መጽኦ፡ ሕሊና፡ እን ዘ፡ ይብል፡ ምስለ፡ እ...

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MY-009
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This parchment codex is composed of 113 leaves. It has 110 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1892-1912, or slightly before 1892. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

... አባ፡ ማሪ፡ ዳሪ፡ ዘውእቱ፡ ክቡር፡ በኀበ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ...

... ወሶበ፡ ደወየ፡ አባ፡ ሳሙኤል፡ ዘቀልሞን፡ ይቤልዎ፡ አዕሩግ፡ ንግረነ፡ በዘነሐ...

... ወኮነ፡ በመዋዕለ፡ ክቡር፡ ሊቀ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ አባ፡ ገብርኤል፡ ፹ወ፰እምሊቃነ፡ ጳጳሳት፡ ዘእለ፡ እስክንድርያ...

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AM-019
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This parchment codex is composed of leaves. It has 183 main content units in 1 codicological unit. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ዱስ፡ አባ፡ ይስሐቅ፡ ዘእምነ፡

... ወቦቱ፡ ካዕበ፡ አዕረ፡ አብ፡ ት ሩፍ፡ አባ፡ መቃርዮስ፡ ቅዱ ስ፡ እለ፡ እስክንድራ...

...ላዕሌሁ፡ መንፈስ፨ ወሶበ፡ ኣዕረፈ፡ አብ፡ አባ፡ አለ፡ ስክ ንድሮስ፡ ወአንበርዎ፡ ለአ...

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stubworksLIT2516WisdomTEI
Ṭǝbaba Salomon
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...ባሕ ፡ ኀለየ ፤ ወኬንያ ፡ በጥበብ ፡ ገብረ ፡ ወእንቲአከ ፡ አባ ፡ ተኀድፍ ፡ ሥምረት ፤...

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BL Oriental 718, Wright cat. CCXCV, Wright cat. 295
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 4+130+4 leaves. It has 47 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1837-1839. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description includes a collation of the quires.

...ቤተ፡ ገብርኤል።ወለካልእታኒ፡ ሰመያ፡ ቤተ፡ አባ፡ መጣዕ። ወከመዝ፡ አስተአኃዘ፡ እሎንተ፡ ክልኤተ፡ አብያተ...

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BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 57
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 119 leaves. It has 6 main content units in 1 codicological unit. Available dates of origin in the description: 1400-1499. There is 1 hand described with Ethiopic script attested. The description does not include a collation of the quires.

ጸሎተ፡ ብጹዕ፡ አባ፡ መጥ፡ እንተ፡ ተወክፈ፡ መከሬ፡ ለሰርጸ፡ ድንግል፡ ያሕይዎ፡ ግሙረ፨ ዘሱታ...

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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.

... አሜን፡ ወአሜን። ወመምህረ፡ ኢትዮጵያሂ፡ አባ፡ ዮሐንስ፡ ዘውእቱ፡ ተላዊሆሙ፡ ለ፴ወ፩፡ ስዩማን፡ እለ፡ ...

...ይለ፡ ማርያም፡ አባ፡ ወልደ፡ ገሪማ፡ ባይቀማኝ፡ ተጫነው፡ አጽብሐ፥ አቶ፡ እን...

... ሻጭ፥ በማኅበር፡ ፈቃድ፡ አባ፡ ፆታ፡ መድኅኑ፡ አቶ፡ እምባየ። እምደብረ፡ ኢዮስያስ፡ የ...

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La-krǝstiyān hulu tasfā nuzzāze yammihon ṭǝqit qāl
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1 in foreign
Abstract

...፡ መንኮሳት፡ ዘደብረ፡ ቤዛን፡ አባ፡ ገብር፡ እግዚብሔር፡ ወአባ፡ ወልደ፡ አብርሃም፡ ርቱዓነ፡...

1 in incipit
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BL Oriental 710, Wright cat. CCLXXXVII, Wright 287
Short Description
This parchment codex is composed of 94 93 1 leaves. It has 4 main content units in 2 codicological units. Available dates of origin in the description: 1700-1750 (dating on palaeographic grounds) 1600-1700 (dating on palaeographic grounds). There are The description includes a collation of the quires.

... ለብፁዕ፡ ወለቅዱስ፡ ገዳማዊ፡ ትሩፈ፡ ገድል፡ አባ፡ ገብረ፡ መንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ።

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