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![Ethiopian Homilies [152]](/thumbnails/h/8/oregondigital-bv73c648h.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [152]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian Homilies [109]](/thumbnails/q/5/oregondigital-bv73c605q.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [109]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian Homilies [006]](/thumbnails/h/5/oregondigital-bv73c505h.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [006]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian Homilies [180]](/thumbnails/p/6/oregondigital-bv73c676p.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [180]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
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- Contents: 1. Ff. 3r-5r: Image of Gabriel. -- 2. Ff. 6r-:13v: Prayer of Incense (Published in Ethiopia, Tənśa'e Zä-Guba'e Press, Addis Ababa, 1951 EC). -- 3. Ff. 14r-37v, 44r-170v: Missal; Rebound in some disorder. Office prayers, f. 14r; ordinary of the Mass, f. 44r; Anaphoras of the Apostles, f. 71r; Our Lord Jesus Christ, f. 77v; John Son of Thunder, f. 89r; Our Lady Mary By Cyriacus of Bəhənsa (called here dərsan homily, not akkwätet), f. 92r; the 318 Orthodox Fathers, f. 104r; John Chrysostom, f. 114; Epiphanius, f. 120r; Dioscorus, f. 127v; James of Sarug, f. 130r; Cyril of Alexandria, f. 138r; Athanasius the Apostolic, f. 145r; Gregory of Armenia, f. 156v; Basil, f. 161v. -- 4. Ff. 37v-38v: The litanical hymn to Christ, For the sake of your Trinity. -- 5. Ff. 38v-39v: Litanical hymn to Jesus Christ. -- 6. Ff. 39v-40v: Halleluiatic hymn to the Trinity. EMIP 39, f. 19r. -- 7. Ff. 40v-42v: Hymn to Saint George. -- 8. Ff. 42v-43v and 174r-176v: Hymn to Mary, You are blessed (Chaîne, Répertoire, no. 292. Most of these hymns (from 4 to 8) are part of the Horologium for night hours. -- 9. Ff. 171r-174r Monastic genealogy of the line of Abunä Ewosṭatewos. Cf. C. Conti Rossini, Il Gadla Filpos e Gadla Yohannes di Dabra Bizan, Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche, vol. VIII, ser. 5 (1903), pp. 154-6; and Getatchew Haile, A Fragment on the Monastic Fathers of the Ethiopian Church, Orbis Aethiopicus: Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki (ed. Piotr O. Scholz et al), Albstrat (1992), pp. 231-7., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 72., Quires: 24 full quires, quires 7 and 10 numbered (as 4 and 1 respectively), 177 folios, 140 x 129 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 2-6, 8, 12-23 balanced; quire 24 adjusted balanced; quires 1, 7, 9-11 unbalanced., Binding: four altered Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards.
![Ethiopian Homilies [024]](/thumbnails/f/3/oregondigital-bv73c523f.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [024]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian Homilies [107]](/thumbnails/5/3/oregondigital-bv73c6035.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [107]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian manuscript missal [006]](/thumbnails/d/0/oregondigital-bv73c370d.jpg "Ethiopian manuscript missal [006]")
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- Contents: 1. Ff. 3r-5r: Image of Gabriel. -- 2. Ff. 6r-:13v: Prayer of Incense (Published in Ethiopia, Tənśa'e Zä-Guba'e Press, Addis Ababa, 1951 EC). -- 3. Ff. 14r-37v, 44r-170v: Missal; Rebound in some disorder. Office prayers, f. 14r; ordinary of the Mass, f. 44r; Anaphoras of the Apostles, f. 71r; Our Lord Jesus Christ, f. 77v; John Son of Thunder, f. 89r; Our Lady Mary By Cyriacus of Bəhənsa (called here dərsan homily, not akkwätet), f. 92r; the 318 Orthodox Fathers, f. 104r; John Chrysostom, f. 114; Epiphanius, f. 120r; Dioscorus, f. 127v; James of Sarug, f. 130r; Cyril of Alexandria, f. 138r; Athanasius the Apostolic, f. 145r; Gregory of Armenia, f. 156v; Basil, f. 161v. -- 4. Ff. 37v-38v: The litanical hymn to Christ, For the sake of your Trinity. -- 5. Ff. 38v-39v: Litanical hymn to Jesus Christ. -- 6. Ff. 39v-40v: Halleluiatic hymn to the Trinity. EMIP 39, f. 19r. -- 7. Ff. 40v-42v: Hymn to Saint George. -- 8. Ff. 42v-43v and 174r-176v: Hymn to Mary, You are blessed (Chaîne, Répertoire, no. 292. Most of these hymns (from 4 to 8) are part of the Horologium for night hours. -- 9. Ff. 171r-174r Monastic genealogy of the line of Abunä Ewosṭatewos. Cf. C. Conti Rossini, Il Gadla Filpos e Gadla Yohannes di Dabra Bizan, Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche, vol. VIII, ser. 5 (1903), pp. 154-6; and Getatchew Haile, A Fragment on the Monastic Fathers of the Ethiopian Church, Orbis Aethiopicus: Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki (ed. Piotr O. Scholz et al), Albstrat (1992), pp. 231-7., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 72., Quires: 24 full quires, quires 7 and 10 numbered (as 4 and 1 respectively), 177 folios, 140 x 129 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 2-6, 8, 12-23 balanced; quire 24 adjusted balanced; quires 1, 7, 9-11 unbalanced., Binding: four altered Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards.
![Ethiopian Homilies [118]](/thumbnails/p/4/oregondigital-bv73c614p.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [118]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
![Ethiopian Homilies [153]](/thumbnails/s/9/oregondigital-bv73c649s.jpg "Ethiopian Homilies [153]")
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- This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
