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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26400

Shelfmark:

Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 42

Title:

Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 42: The Cycle of Kings (Awədä Nägäśət), Collection of Divination Texts

Divination texts

Magical Prescription against Evil Eye, Epilepsy, Thieves, and Successful Delivery

Magical texts

Magical Prescription (Upside Down) to Aid Conceiving a Child

Magical texts

Hasab (calculations?) Concerning the Sick Person Magical Prayer to Draw a Woman Back After She Went With Another Man

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer to Cause the Drowning of Demons

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for Gaining Respect and Favor

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer to Cause the Binding of Demons

Prayer

Magical texts

Prayer for Protecting Suckling Infants, Containing the Legend of Susenyos

Prayer

Magical Prescription and Prayer for Protection from Thieves and Bandits

Magical text

Magical Prayer to Make It Impossible for Other Men to Approach One's Woman

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prescription against Typhoid, Cancer, and Leprosy

Magical text

Magical Prayer for Gaining Love and Respect from Kings and Officials and People Everywhere

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for Protection of Property

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prescription against Stroke

Magical text

Magical Prayer for Protection

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer Using Archangel Michael's Magical Names (Asmat)

Prayer

Magical texts

Anqäs Concerning the Fate of a Man Thrown Into Prison

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning (Unidentified, Illegible)

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Power

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Age

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Deceit

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Journeys

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning the Coming of Sickness and Death

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning the Coming of Enemies

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Long-Distance Business

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Daily Subsistence

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning the Loss of Property or Money

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Conflicts

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Messages and Appropriate Messengers

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning How to Find Property or Money

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Having or Not Having a Child

Anqäs

Anqäs Concerning Sickness

Anqäs

The Numerical Value of the Letters of the Ge'ez Alphabet

Numerological text

Hasabä Səns Concerning the Fetus A Reading from Psalm 121 [in Ethiopic Bible, Psalm 120]

Psalms

Magical Prayer of Moses

Prayer

Magical texts

Reading from a Gospel

Gospel reading

Magical Prayer against Enemies

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for the Whole Year

Prayer

Magical texts

Astrology (On the Stars)

Astrological text

Computation of the Spirit (Hatäta Mänafəsət)

Computation

Scheme of Lake Tana Scheme of Lake Kora Scheme of Lake Ela Scheme of Lake Zəway Scheme of Lake Wənəg Scheme of Lake Daha Scheme of Lake Hayəq Scheme of Lake Heno Scheme of Lake Šämazəbe Scheme of Lake Gəmb Scheme of Lake Täkäze Scheme of Lake Abawi Hasab Concerning Taking a Wife Magical Prayer for Getting a Gift

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer With a Talismanic Symbol

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer (In Arabic With Ge'ez Characters) With Magical Charts

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer against Bleeding and Sickness During Pregnancy

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Charts

Magical texts

Magical Prayer against Miscarriage

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for Love

Prayer

Magical texts

Computation of Ezra

Computation

Computation of Egypt

Computation

Magical Prayer for a Safe Journey

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for the Binding of a Slave

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Prayer for the Banishment of Demons

Prayer

Magical texts

The Numerical Values of the Letters of the Ge'ez Alphabet on a Separate Tiny Quire

Numerological text

Calculation of the Copts Concerning the Best Dates to Go to War Calendar of the Seasons

Calendar

Magical Prayer of Jeremiah

Prayer

Magical texts

Computation of Aristotle

Computation

Magical Prescription against Sickness

Magical text

Mästam (The Drowning) Computation of Enoch

Computation

Magical Prescription against Various Diseases

Magical text

Hasab Magical Prayer for Protection When Herding Animals

Prayer

Magical texts

Net of Solomon Magical Prayers

Prayer

Magical texts

Magical Charts in Ge'ez and Magical Prayers Written in Arabic With Ge'ez Letters

Magical texts

Computation of Daniel

Computation

Ge'ez Verbs

Ge'ez linguistic text

Magical Prescription against Diseases

Magical text

Magical Prayers and Hasab of the Children of Jesse

Prayer

Magical texts

Lists of Possibilities Hasab of the Circle of the Year Anqäs Concerning Love

Anqäs

Magical Prayer against Chest Pain

Prayer

Magical texts

Place:

Ethiopia

Ethiopia TGN

Date:

1788-1800

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Geez

Ge'ez WIKIDATA

gez;Amharic

Ge'ez WIKIDATA

Amharic WIKIDATA

amh

Amharic WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment Codex.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: Parchment Codex.; 13.5 x 18 cm

Note:

Layout: 1 col. [fols. 1-30, 117-126]; 2 columns [fols. 31-116]; lines vary throughout.
Decoration: Two miniatures.
Written in black and red ink. Leather carrying case with strap. Wooden boards, broken lower board, stitched and open spine. Fols. 82r-85v: Inserted four-folio quire of tiny size: 6 cm x 7.5 cm.
Illustrations: Fols. 34v-35v: Fortune-telling charts with birthdates and letters of names.
Illustrations: Fols. 36rv: Magical pictures representing the four quarters of the heavens.
Illustrations: Fols. 37r-44v: Sixteen magical circles.
Illustrations: Fols. 72v-73r: Talismanic symbol.
Fol. 114v: Note is made of the Ethiopian kings from the first king of the Solomonic dyn...[text truncated]

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Ethiopic

Psalters

Ethiopia

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