Funeral ritual

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Description

Text 1: ff. 1va,1-40rb,6 (end): Funeral rituals: prayers for burials of various persons: priests, monks, youngsters, children etc.; (incomplete: no beginning, f. 1r - illegible); Text 2: ff. 42r,1-67vb,7(end): a Collection of Alleluyatic Hymns; incomplete (another codicological unit, no beginning, no end); Text 3: ff. 68ra,1-73vb,end: Gənzat of monks; (unfinished, some folios lost); Text 4: ff. 74ra,1-79vb,end: The Prayer for the dead by Matthew Evangelist, the apostle; (ጸሎተ፡ ምውታን፡ ዘማቴዎስ፡ ወንጌለዊ፡ ሐዋርያ፡)

In collections

Gunda Gunde Manuscripts

Details

Address

Monastery of Gunda Gunde

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Local Identifier

GG-198

Title

f. 1r: ግንዘት (Gənzät); written in large blue letters, repeated on the lower margin with a pen; and again on f. 79v (last)

Contributors

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

General Note

Ms not complete; it contains fragments coming from various other mss bound together; ff. 40v-41v: empty

Physical Description Note

Number of folios: 79; European foliation; Number of quires: 10; Number of columns of the text: ff. 1-47v: 2 cols; ff. 48r,1-62v,6: 1 col. (except f. 54); ff. 62v,7-end: 2 cols.; Number of lines in columns: ff. 1-41: 14; ff. 42-47: 11-13; ff. 48-72: 10-11; ff. 73-end: 15

Topic

Liturgy

Country

Ethiopia

State/Province

Tigray