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

of 15 Bishops
who gathered because of the [reproach]
of those who walk
in the night [of the] flesh, and [its]...
and they established [what is]
regarding this and that which
resembles it, the [treatises],
and their symbol is the seal,
this is its seal. And the sixth
canon [is] the council of the fourth,
and their number is 13
Bishops who gathered
in Antioch because of the
heresy of Paul of Samosata,
who lived as
if Christ were a man, bare,
and they cut him [off], and they established
25 canons because
of the priesthood, and its symbol [is]
TSEKE, this is Antioch.
And the eighth canon of the council
of the fifth is the first
of them of the council of the [Habeiti],
which gathered in Nicaea in the year
225 from the Incarnation
and in the 19th year
of the reign of Constantine, who is the great, the first
of the kings of
the Christians, and their number
[is] 318 Bishops.

And it was called [by] the name of
these [matters] 454
[of the] Bishops who
gathered because of the cause [of those] who [denied]
Arius, who said that
the Son is a created being. And
they fought [those] who [Alexander],
the Patriarch
of Alexandria, [was] with,
and he died and gathered
with him his community to accept
and [return], and they wrote the book
of that which exists in the
Right Faith, and
they established from 55
[decrees] of the canons. Many [are]
established in
this book, it remains
[for] each of them
20 canons, and after
them [are] many words which
do not have a number, it is that which
he said
upon him. And its symbol
too is Nicaea, this is Nicaea. And the second
[has] much profit in it, and they wrote
for the [excommunication] of the Romans
and those of [Gangra], and it
is placed at the [guards]
and the [living]...
And their count
in the book
of the Romans [is] 84
canons, and that which follows them
[are] words
which have no number. And the book

which exists with the Romans
has [additions] to [themselves]
alone, and its symbol is Nicaea.
Ten canons [are] of the council
of the sixth, which is Laodicea, and their
number is 19 Bishops
who gathered because of the community
which resembles [that of the]...
they created disturbers of the faith, and
they established the canon
59 canons
because of the priesthood and [asceticism]
and marriage, and that which resembles it.
And [this]... this is profit,
and its symbol is DEQ, this is
Laodicea. 11 [are] the canons
of the council of the seventh, their number [is] 150
Bishops who gathered
in Constantinople, the city of the
Kingdom, and it was ruled because of the
correct [faith]. They rose
against Athanasius, who is the
faith of the father of
Alexandria, and against the Patriarch
of Constantinople, and they took
them, and they returned them to their
thrones, and they established
17 canons because of the rank of the Bishops and