About this work
F. 124a: Mounted warrior brandishing a spear, perhaps St. George. Ornamental designs, ff. 4a, 93a, 109b and 118b. Ff. la and 123a blank. Many leaf numbers are illegible in the film. 305 ENML Pr.
Original catalogue wording
F. 124a: Mounted warrior brandishing a spear, perhaps St. George. Ornamental designs, ff. 4a, 93a, 109b and 118b. Ff. la and 123a blank. Many leaf numbers are illegible in the film. 305 ENML Pr. No. 972 Bookseller Alga Warq, quarter of Takla Haymanot, Addis Ababa. Parchment, 15 x 10 cm., 55+1 ff., 2 cols., 16 lines, late 19th or early 20th c. 1) Ff. la-39a: The Canticle of the Flower [Ma^leta gege]. The beginning is the short one that is presumably original. The ending, on the contrary, is even longer than what is found in EMML 966. 2) Ff. 39b-43b : The Sword of the Godhead [Sayfa malakot]. 3) Ff. 44a-55b: "Image" of St. George [Malke’a Giyorgisj.
Description transcribed from the printed EMML catalogue; the manuscript image is not redistributed.
- Holding institution
- Bookseller Alga Warq, quarter of Takla Haymanot, Addis Ababa.
- Shelfmark
- EMML 971
- Folio
- 124a
- Catalogue source
- Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) catalogues
- Source record
- EMML Catalogue, volume 3, PDF page 1