Ms. codex. Layout: Written in two columns of 13 lines; ruled in dry point with double inner and single outer vertical bounding lines; pricking in outer margins. Script: Written in Ethiopic (Ge'ez) script; rubrics in red. Decoration: On fol. 5, pencil sketch of intertwined foliage in upper margin between columns as decorative opening header. Binding: Bound in leather, blind stamped with a geometric pattern. Origin: Written in Ethiopia in the 20th century. Written in a 20th-century hand; note the presence of a prayer to Metropolitan Matewos (1889-1926) among the texts. Anonymous gift to Pius XII Memorial Library. Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, VFL MS 030.
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