What the catalogue identifies
An Ethiopian manuscript containing:ff. 1 and 2 were the original flyleaves. A few magical prayers and prescriptions have been written thereon in a second hand.f.3r. [Saragala Elyas], the secret names of God, thirty-nine in number, with corresponding prescriptions for their use.Between ff.6-7. A small vellum leaf is bound in containing a magical formula for changing into a lion or another beast. (f. 3r)– a note: መ[ድኃኒት]፡ ዘቅዱስ፡ መድኃኔ፡ ዓለም፡, i.e. Book Medicine [belonging to the Church] of the Saviour of the World’ at Magdala.ff. 3v-9r. Mesṭéra Dawit containing prescriptions in Amharic on the therapeutic use of each Psalm.ff. 9r- 109v. Magical prayers, pictures, and prescriptions, partly for undoing charms, partly against various devils and diseases. This collection is interrupted several times by other texts briefly enumerated below: f. 24r. Saragala Elyas “The Chariot of Elijah” identical with the text described folio.3r.ff. 91v-95r. Fekkare Iyasus.f.98v. A miracle of the Virgin Mary. Between ff. 96-97, and between ff. 98 and 99, two other amulets have been bound.ff. 98v-99r. Salamtat (praise) to the Virgin Mary. f. 99r. Hasab (divination) of man who is sick.f. 99v. Explanation of…
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
- 1750
- Date evidence
- Date range supplied by the British Library catalogue.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- Or 11390
- 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 032-003387073