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

its symbol is DEQ, which is
CHRIST 12 canons.
Abulidis [Hippolytus], the Patriarch
of Rome, and their number is
38 canons. And they wrote
because [of this] there is no
Egyptian [in it]. And it exists [with]
profit 1 4 5 3 6 2. And behold,
Abba Gabriel,
the Patriarch of
Alexandria, wrote from it
into the canons which
gathered it, and its
symbol is [BA], which is
Abuli [Hippolytus]. 13 canons
which remain
in [the nature of] the thoughts
of the Bishop of Nicaea because of the priests,
and [asceticism] and marriage,
and that which resembles it, [it] is
QAW 3, at the place of the Egyptians
and the [locals], and the number
is 160. And it exists in the
[books] many, and its symbol
is BUK, which is the [nature]. And
behold, it was told, a little
from its [chapters] into the chapter of
the monks, and its symbol is ‡
BUK. 14 canons
that [the Law] established
in the canons of the kings which
are in the ordinances which

[are]... and it was said that
this is 4 books which commanded
the gathering for the kings
from the words of the Old [Testament] in the
[time] of the [reign] of
Constantine, the King.
1 from them which [brought]
Abba [Nolika], and another
40
chapters the [locals]
gathered it, it is a book
good [and] more, and its
symbol is TEKE, which is [the]
[translations]. And the other, its number
in that [both] of the
churches of Christ, of Egypt
and the [locals], 151
canons. It exists with us
as known, and behold, Abba Gabriel, the Patriarch
of Alexandria, wrote from it
at the end of his book, and its
symbol is MEKA, which is
kings, second and [fill] which
[was written] for the [heretics] of the [locals],
and its number is 27
chapters, and its symbol is M 1, this
is [Malka] [King], it is 3
books which give us
from them a little, and that which was

written from it
is few. And the fourth, its number
[is] 65
parts. And the first
from them was written as
it is 87, and the second
181. And the gatherer
from the interpretation of the Torah is it, and
from it, which is of Jerusalem, the interpretation
of [the] seventy, and that which was written
from it is a little, and its
symbol is MEA, which is
kings, fourth. And that which
increases the books of the
canon [is] separated, its number
[is] like the other, and there is no
one who told [of the]
other of the books and
canons which we preceded
mentioning, except for the
historian, which is [Zernakia]
[Sozomen]... and [it was scattered]...
and for Gregory its symbol
[is] GIR,
and for John Chrysostom
its symbol is H, and for Christophoros,
Bishop, who is Gebre
Kristos, from the Patriarchs
of Alexandria,
its symbol is KIRKTA,
and for Timothy
its symbol is TIMO. And all that was told