Tānāsee, Kebran Gabriel Monastery, 35

Images: Beta Masaheft

Other shelfmark(s): EMML 8294 (new images)

Physical description: parchment, 22 × 23 cm, 106 fols., 2 cols.

Language: Ge‘ez

Date: 18th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ (fols. 2^r–32^v)

Epistle of the Apostles (fols. 35^r–46^r)

Second Coming of Christ and the Resurrection of the Dead (fols. 46^r–59^r; includes Apocalypse of Peter)

Mystery of the Judgment of Sinners (fols. 59^r–70^v)

Annunciation of Gabriel to Mary (fols. 99^r–101^r)

Story about the Conception of the Redeemer by Mary (fols. 101^r–102^r)

Homily on the Resurrection and the Passion by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 102^v–105^r)

Additional contents: Beginning of Belief (attributed to Epiphanius), Hymn to Christ in Praise of the Incarnation, On the Resurrection of the Lord (by Cyril of Jerusalem, fols. 102^v–105^r; incomplete at end).

Catalogs:

Hammerschmidt, Ernst. Äthiopische Handschriften vom Ṭānāsee. 3 vols. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, 20/1–3. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1973–1999 (vol. 1, pp. 163–67).

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]) and Chance Bonar, Harvard University ([email protected]), 24 May 2022.