Text 1: ff. 1r-176ra; Spiritual Elder; (i.e. the name of the author = the title of his work)
Monastery of Gunda Gunde
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GG-073
Front cover: ኣረጋዊ መንፈሳዊ (᾽Arägawi mänfäsawi) f. 1r upper margin: ኣረጋዊ መንፈ (᾽Arägawi mänfä) 1ra3-5: … መጽሐፍ፡ እንተ፡ ዘአረጋዊ፡ ጻድቅ፡ መንፈሳዊ፡ (…Book which is by the Righteous Spiritual Elder …)
Michael Gervers (researcher)
Witold Witakowski (data contributor)
᾽Arägawi mänfäsawi - “Spiritual Elder” (= St. Saba) (author)
f. 176ra,11-b,9: a colophone telling that the book of the Spiritual Elder was translated from Arabic into Ge‘ez during the reign of King Ləbnä Dəngəl (1508-40); ff. Iv-IIv (foreguard), 176v (last): empty
Number of folios: 2 + 176; (European foliation); Number of quires: 22; Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: 19
Ascetical treatise Monastic treatise
Ethiopia
Tigray
