Archival records from Preservation of the historical literary heritage of Tigray, Ethiopia: the library of Romanat Qeddus Mika'el (EAP254)
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"Dawit ""Psalter"" (fragment) [mid-19th century]"
The missing half of EAP254/1/14, including the manuscript binding. The back cover is broken. The threads of the binding are broken: some folios are… -
"Dawit ""Psalter"" [18th century]"
The Psalter is one of the most wide-spread works in Ethiopia, used for both the liturgy and private devotion (s. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica IV, 231-… -
"Zena sellase ""The Story of the Trinity"" [early to mid 20th century]"
The text is meant to be read at the church feasts of the Holy Trinity; it is attested since circa early 19th century. The manuscript contains the… -
"Dawit ""Psalter"" [18th century]"
The manuscript contains Ethiopic Psalter, a marginal note. The owner (and donor?) was perhaps a certain Gäbrä Egzi'abeher (folio. 144r,… -
"Dawit ""Psalter"" [20th century]"
The manuscript contains Ethiopic Psalter, some crude drawings and designs (folios 1-2), and crude marginal notes (folio 177v). Donated by wäyzaro (… -
"Gädlä Täklä Haymanot ""The Acts of Täklä Haymanot"" [20th century]"
The collection of hagiographic works is devoted to Täklä Haymanot, a 13th-14th-century Ethiopian saint (Encyclopaedia Aethiopica IV, 831-34). The… -
"Gebrä Hemamat ""The Rite of the Passion Week"" [1697 AD, during the reign of King Iyasu I Adyam Sägäd (1682-1706)]"
The Mäshafä Gebrä Hemamat is used for the church services during the days of the Holy Week. It is considered to have been compiled at least in the… -
"Gädlä Zä-Mika'el Arägawi ""The Acts of Zä-Mika'el Arägawi"" [20th century]"
The Vita of Zä-Mika'el Arägawi, one of the so-called "Nine Saints", is read upon the church commemoration of the Saint. The Vita was… -
"Nägärä Maryam ""The Story of Mary"" [20th century]"
The apocryphal work Nägärä Maryam is attested since ca. early 18th century. The manuscript contains the Story of Mary and two marginal notes. The… -
"Tä'amrä Maryam ""Miracles of Mary"" [20th century]"
The manuscript contains a collection of 290 miracles. Commissioned and donated by Wäldä Mädhen, Fessha Heywät and (fem.) Wälättä Heywät.… -
"Dersanä Mika'el (""The Homily of St. Mika'el"") [late 18th-early 19th cent]"
Commissioned and donated by Wäldä Mädhen, Fessha Heywät and (fem.) Wälättä Heywät. -
"Collection of liturgical hymns (Me'eraf, Mäwase'et) [late 18th century]"
A collection of several books of liturgical hymns. The manuscript contains the text with musical notation signs, written above the lines.… -
"Dersanä Rufa'el ""The Homily of St. Raphael"". [19th century (?)]"
The text is read on the church feast of St. Raphael. The manuscript contains the collection of Miracles of St. Raphael and mälke'-hymns in his… -
"Tä'amrä Maryam ""Miracles of Mary"" [19th century]"
The manuscript contains a short collection of Miracles and three miniatures (probably painted later). The lacunas in the supplication formulas,… -
Mäwase'et (a collection of chants) [late 19th century]
The manuscript contains a collection of liturgical hymns (antiphons) with musical notation signs and a drawing (the scheme of the partition of the…