What the catalogue identifies
An Ethiopian manuscript containing:ff. 1r-88r. The Gospel of St John, ወንጌለ ዮሐንስ. The division of the text for the days of the week is indicated by two different hands:f. 16r. Saturday, የቅዳሜ.f. 27r. Wednesday, ዘረቡዕ.f. 41v. Thursday, ዘሐሙስ. Erased and supplied by Wednesday, ዘረቡዕ.f. 55r. Friday, ዘዓርብ, erased. f. 68v. Saturday, ዘቅዳም, erased and supplied by Friday, ዘዓርብ.f. 81r. Sunday, ዘዓርብ.ff. 88r-90v. Malké Trinity. The beginning is missing. ድር ወስማይ አሠርግ ውኒ ሥላሴ በቀጠንተ ምግባር ሠናይ. ወረስዩኒ ሐደስ እምነ ልማዱ ብሉይ.
The official manuscript record and IIIF manifest are documented. No art folios were safely mapped from the catalogue prose, so a full page-by-page visual audit remains pending.
- Source date
- 17th century
- Date evidence
- Date range supplied by the British Library catalogue.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- Or 8817
- Folio
- Full visual audit pending
- Place evidence
- No place is inferred from the shelfmark or repository. Consult the linked catalogue record for the source wording.
- Catalogue source
- British Library Ethiopian manuscripts catalogue
- Source record
- British Library catalogue 032-003372104