Book of the Mystery

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GG-100

f. 1r upper margin: መፅሃፈ ሚስጥር (sic! for መጽሐፈ፡ ምስጢር፡); Mäḍhafä Misṭər (sic! for Mäṣḥafä Məsṭir)

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

Giyorgis Säglawi, i.e., of Sägla, (a.k.a: of Gassächcha) (author)

f. 32v,a-b: "This book (belongs) to (the church) Betä Giyorgis (of?) Qärna" (owner)

The ms belonged to an Abunä (of Gundä Gunde ?) whose name is however erased everywhere, e.g., f. 37vb,5 fb; (former owner)

Both the beginning and the end are missing; f. 10v: empty

Number of folios: 183; European foliation; Number of quires: 24-26 (?: many quires are split); Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: 28-32

Theology
Treatise of heresiology

Ethiopia

Tigray