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Scope and Contents ff.30; 162 x 115mm; text size 117 x 75mm; 13 lines (mostly). Uneven and unattractive, but legible, writing on paper bound in tooled brown leather.This MS contains a recension of the Roman Catholic catechism and prayers (but not the extract from St. Luke’s Gospel), written by one Abba Tobya, printed at Rome in 1788 and described by M. Chaire in ‘Catalogue des Mss. Ethiopiens de la Collection Antoine d’Abbadie’, Paris, 1912, under MS 239. It contains some additional material, some...

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Label: ‘Mr Price’s transcript of Amharic Acts-Revelation’.
ff.1260 (total); 205 x 130mm; text size 153 x 106mm; 37 lines; 22 parts numbered 1 to 1260, with ff.258 and 380 blank; single sheets unbound.
A copy of the New Testament except the Gospels, of Abu Rumi’s translation made for the use of the printer.

Scope and Contents Abu Rumi's translation.ff.4, 383 (total); 171 x 120mm; text size 130 x 72mm; 18 lines. Twenty-nine unbound volumes containing the Bible including deuteron-canonical books but with Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations missing.The first translation of the Bible into Amharic made between 1807 - 1819 by Abu Rumi (or Abba Romi) under the supervision of the French Consul at Cairo M. Louis Asselin de Cherville.The MS was edited by Thomas Pell Platt assisted by Samuel Lee, Professor of...

Scope and Contents ff.104; 326 x 201mm; text written on full page; loose sheets, partly grouped to form gatherings but unstitched and unbound.This MS contains two distinct parts but which were gathered by the author. The first part is a collation of St. John, (f.1 recto:- ‘Collatio Textus Aethiopici in Evangelio sec. Joannem prout in Biblicis Polyglottis extat, cum lectionibus codicis m[anu]s[crip]ti in Bibliotheca Publica Cantabrigiensi Oo.1.41’) from Walton’s Polyglot of 1655-57. The second part is a...

Scope and Contents ff.312; 227 x 163mm; text size 146 x 100mm; 17 lines to Genesis, 16 lines to Exodus. Ruled with hard point. Two unbound bundles, with first two quires of Exodus missing.Another MS of Abu Rumi’s translation. Decorated with red and/or silver for punctuation marks and the Divine Names. Loose leaf between the bundles.‘To the President, Vice-Presidents, Committee and Members of the Honourable British and Foreign Bible Society. The Books of Exodus is translated in the Vulgar language...

Scope and Contents ff. I + 276 + I; 223 x 146mm; text size 172 x 110mm in two columns of 35 lines, irregular collation, bound in red leather stamped in gilt on covers and spine, golden borders.Ruled by pricking and hard point and decorated with ‘gates’ in yellow, orange, red, green, blue and black at 7 places in text beginning at f.12 recto and small floral motifs in the same colours at 18 places, beginning at f.176 recto.This manuscript contains the New Testament (paged 1-521 in Amharic) and, among...

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The notes are chiefly Ethiopian, with Latin renderings; some are in Arabic. Many pages are blank. See also MSS Dd.06.04, Dd.06.63 and Dd.11.39.

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Label: ‘As passed by Revision C(ommi)ttee.’
ff.110 + 80; 328 x 220mm; text size irregular. Gathered mainly in quires of 20 leaves, written in pencil.
Herovy and Erikson’s revision. The St. John was printed at King Tafari’s Royal Press in 1929 and so was published earlier than the St. Luke. (C86). See also BFBS MS 20.

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Label: ‘Revised MS’.
ff.120 + 84; 340 x 209mm; text size irregular; written in ink on loose leaves, unbound.
Herovy and Eriksson’s revision; St Mark was published in 1935. This MS and BFBS MS 20 bear a very close resemblance to each other but both differ from MS 21. The editions of St. Luke and St. John were published with Amharic and Northern Galla (sic, i.e. Oromo) on opposite pages, but not the St. Mark. (C91)

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(Verso): St. Luke’s Gospel in Amharic and Gala, (sic) London and Addis Ababa - British & Foreign Bible Society, 1933.’
ff.138; 340 x 209mm; text size irregular, written in ink on loose leaves, unbound.
A further revision of J.M. Flad’s revision of John Ludwig Krapf’s version of the New Testament by B.G. Herovy and O. Eriksson, both of the Swedish Mission. Although the MS was completed by October 1925 it was not printed until 1933, by the BFBS. (C87)

Scope and Contents ‘St Mark’s Gospel translated by Nathaniel Pearce at the request of Mr. W. Jowett'.ff.64; 220 x 134mm; text on full page; 21 lines (variable); quires numbered 1-8 collated 1-8(8); written in roman character with English spellings; unbound.Translated from the English (Authorised) version by Nathaniel Pearce who also translated St. Mark and St. John into Tigrinya. This MS has a comparative table of terms in English, Tigré [i.e. Tigrinya] and Amharic beginning at ff.56 verso; ff.63...