Maṣḥafa ḥāwi
Dorothea Reule
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The following division into textparts follows Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 110 and Frankfurt, Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt Ms. or. 13.
Introduction followed by the table of the 63 rubrics and a short explanation by the translator on his methods.
On the work's subject
Introduction, on the necessity of knowing scripture
Summary of God's commandments, on suffering for the sake of
virtue, on the unhappiness resulting from sinning, on good reputation,
on false prophets and doctors
On the monastic life
On slaves
On the abandoning of the monastic life
On the necessity of keeping God's commandments without fear
of others
On wrong and false doctors
On anger which can be righteous
On verbal injuries
On reconciliations
On fornication
On fornication, adultery, abduction of women etc.
On vows, lying and perjury
On retaliation, pardon, homicide
On simplicity, prudence and hability
On obedience
On the will
On carrying out good intentions
On alms
On the preference of giving to the poor than to the Church
On the use of wrongly earned money
On alms
On love and charity
That one should offend or hate noone.
That one should pray for everyone, and for apostates and heretics only
during their lifetime and on the importance of charity towards everyone
On almsgiving in secret
On prayer
On the different kinds of prayers and offices of anachoretes
On the different ways of prayer
On the conditions of effective prayer, the necessity of fleeing temptation,
on hope, on the confessors and martyrs
One the uselessness of making others pray for oneself
without working for one's own salvation, on the inefectiveness of baptism or the monastic
life without personal sanctification, on the small number of the elected, on the mistake
of those who pretend that God doesn't punish
On the importance of pleasing God, not men and on God's
judgement of intentions
On abandoning wordly goods and on monastic poverty
On poverty, remuneration of doctors and simony
On the relations between monks and the world
On the clothes and food which are suitable for monks, priests and laymen
On richness and poverty
That one should not judge others foolishly, that the one without sins should
judge his subordinates, on the error of thinking that one should judge nobody
That one should not judge priests
On kingdom, tyranny and foreign domination
On God's judgement
On seers and visionaries
On the works
On the occuptaion of monks
On trading and the prohibition of trading inside Churches
On the professions possible for laymen, on medicine and quacksalvers
On eunuchs
On humility and perfection
On God's commandments and the prescriptions of the fathers, on the
different meanings of Scripture, on justice and sainthood
On penitence and the confession of sins
On confession, penitence and absolution of sins
On the explanation of the divine mysteries
On the danger of receiving confessions for those who have a weak spirit
On confession and absolution
On the penances imposed by priests
On holidays, fasts and adorations. Why prayer is done facing eastwards
On the institution and goal of Christian holidays; on defilement
of the body
On the obligation of fasting
On the monks' food
On the food of coenobites and anachoretes
On the food of laymen
On the ordination and deposition of priests
On the time of this work's composition
Secondary Bibliography
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Ezra Gebremedhin 2005. ‘Ḥawi: Mäṣḥafä ḥawi’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 1052a–1053a.
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Wright, W. 1877. Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1847 (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1877). page 235a-253b
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Revisions of the data
- Daria Elagina Daria Elagina: Added bibliographical reference. on 21.7.2020
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Additions on 30.8.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: text record on 9.2.2016
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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Daria Elagina, contributor
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