The Harp (Arganon)

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GG-114

f. 1r: ኣርጋኖን፡, ᾽Arganon; written in large blue characters; and twice with pencil, in smaller characters

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

Wäldä Haymanot
ff. 74vb,5-1fb: “This book belongs to Abunä Wäldä Haymanot, who acquired it with his own means, that it may serve him for the salvation of his soul and body”
(owner)

The ms is in bad condition, has many lacunae and is not complete; ff. 1v-2r: two added folios from another ms, covered with an unident. text partly in Amharic; damaged; ff. 145r-151(end): a quire added from another, older, ms, beginning with a haräg; Some of the quires are numbered on their first folios, upper margin, left, e.g., f. 43r: quire 5, f. 71r: quire 8; 17th century: the main part of the ms. 18th century: the main part of the ms. 15th-16th cent.: the added unit (ff. 145-151)

Number of folios: 151, not complete; European foliation; Number of quires: 13 (?) the ms is in bad shape; Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: 19

Ethiopia

Tigray