"Dersanä Sänbät (""Homily of the Sabbath"") [first half of the 19th century]"

The work is linked to the custom of observing two Sabbath days. The manuscript contains one of the homilies devoted to the veneration of the Sabbath days which is ascribed to Jacob of Sarug (s. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica II, 141-42) and known starting from the 18th cent. The manuscript contains the Homily and a donation note. Donated by emmahoy (female ecclesiastic title) Dästa (baptismal name Wälättä Egzi', folio 48).