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Title: On the front board: ኣርኬ / ነግስ (᾽Arke / Nägs) f. Ir: ነግሥ (Nägś), written twice: in upper and lower part; f.1r,1-3: The Lord Reigns (Inc. እግዚአብሔር፡ ነግሠ፡ እምዓመት። እስከ፡ ዓመት። ᾽Ǝgzi᾽abəḥer nägśä ᾽əm-ʽamät ᾽əskä ʽamät)
Description: Text 1: f. 1r,1-121r,11(end): Arke Hymns (in honour of saints on specific days); starting with the hymn The Lord Reigns
Date Created: [1800-1899?]
Subject: Religious poetry

Title: f. 1r: ግንዘት (Gənzät); written in large blue letters, repeated on the lower margin with a pen; and again on f. 79v (last)
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፡)
Date Created: [1700-1799?]
Subject: Liturgy

Title: Front cover: በሃይለ ሚካኤል (Bä-Haylä Mika’el), i.e. the name of the author instead of the title of his work
Description: Text 1: ff. 3ra,1-138ra,end: [The book of the Mysteries of the Heavens and the Earth]; beginning (and the title) missing the extant text begins at p. 10,15 of Perruchon’s edition, after f. 3vb,end one or more fols missing; The 2nd treatise, the Commentary (tərgwame) on the Book of Revelation, (Grébaut PO 6:3, pp. [126-155] is put as the last, i.e., after part 4 (ff. 115va,4-138ra, end)
Date Created: [1400-1499?]

Title: f. 1r, lower margin: ኤርምያስ ነቢይ (᾽Erməyas Näbiy) - Jeremiah the Prophet, written in large dark green letters f. 1ra-b,1: ዘእርሚያስ፡ ነቢይ። (Zä-᾽Ǝrmiyas Näbiy) - Of Jeremiah the Prophet
Description: Text 1: ff. 1ra,1-3vb,end: Book of Jeremiah, only beginning up to Jer. 4:7; (f. 1ra-b: ዘእርሚያስ፡ ነቢይ።); these three folios come from another ms.; Text 2: ff. 4ra,1-55ra,6fb, 59vb,1-60vb,23: Book of Jeremiah; (f. 4ra-b: ዘእርሚያስ፡ ነቢይ።); Text 3: ff. 55ra,5fb-59va,end: Lamentations of Jeremiah (f. 55ra,5fb: ሰቆቀወ፡ እርሚያስ።), the text is abbreviated
Date Created: [1400-1499?]
Subject: Bible, Old Testament

Title: f. Ir: ዜና፡ ስላሴ፡ (Zena Səllase), written in large green letters
Description: Text 1: ff. 1ra,1-44rb,8(end): Zena zä-Śəllase (f. 44rb,6: ዜና፡ ዘሥላሴ፡): Homilies (Dərsanat); homilies are to be read in particular months; these are indicated both in the text and on upper margin, e.g., ff. 1r: Mäggabit; 8v: Gənbot; 9v: Sane, 11r: Ḥamle; 19rb: Nähase; 20rb: Pägumen (sic!); 21v: Mäskäräm; 29v: Yäkkatit; Text 2: ff. 44v1-93rb, end: The Story of the Trinity, part 2: The Miracles of the Trinity

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