ፍትሐ ነገሥት (Law of the Kings — Legal Code of the Ethiopian Empire)

the Apostles, and they sent it in
the true, pure assistance of Peter,
the chief of the Apostles, a
second [time] to all the disciples, and
to all the faithful. And they brought it to
the Arabic governor of the Greeks and those
of the Romans in that
book, and its head
at the place of the Romans, 82,
and likewise it is
in the Sabaean guards and the Syrians
and the Ascusians and those who are
Romans in the name of the
book of the Christian,
which gathered and begot,
Nistorian [Nestorian], 82.
And its teaching is 2 letters
2 from as the Apostles,
and the third from as the disciple
who was sent in truth,
and the fourth [is] added, as
as the first it is,
and its teaching is [found] in
which is the word of the first,
it is found. And the Badians
brought it out in the number
one thousand [and] one, and
like this until 10. And in their sitting,
the Isurabians [Isaurians] 30 and
like this until its completion.

And they brought out
this to the 2 books
which they numbered, for each 1 of
them, that which is more from it, it exists
in the other. And the count of
1 of them [is] 71
canons, and its symbol is REKA-
BO, which is the word of the
first, the pure. And the third
is 57, and its symbol
is REKABO 5, which is the word of
the first, the third. These, therefore,
are 3 books which
unite in matter, and [their] separation
from them in the number of parts
does not [exceed] upon
the other, except for a few. And the third
book, which is known among
the Egyptians, 7 [is] the Decelia original: "ደክቀልያ" likely referring to the Didascalia or similar canonical collection, this is
the teaching, that is [to say].
And they say that they
gathered because of the need in
Jerusalem. 13
Apostles, and Paul 45,
and James the Bishop
of Jerusalem. And they wrote
because of the [output] of the Egyptians,
and there is not
therein anything which is lacking
from the canons, and its abundance is
found from its revolving in

various places, from the Gospel,
and from the Old [Testament], and the number
is 39 chapters, and its
symbol is the writing, which is
50, the Decelia. And the fourth is the
Epistle of Peter to the word
[of the first], and its symbol, which is
6 Peter. And the fifth is the canons
of the council, the first of them
for the councils which
gathered after the
Apostles in the city
of Gangra, which is from the smallness of
Galatia, and their number is 12
Bishops. And they gathered
because of the cause of that which
fell from the time of fears in
their own disbelief. And their number
in the Coptic book [is]
25 canons, and its
symbols are "Amu Ze Aza 39",
A, the canon of the community of the Westerners,
which gathered in Carthage,
and it exists
in Caesarea, and their number [is]
7 bishops, and they established 19
canons because of the preaching
and the priests, and its
symbol is QE WETA, which is
Carthage. And the seventh canon
is the council of the third, which is [in] Gangra, and its count