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

And a rich man shall not stand together so that he is not preferred with the poor, and a master shall not be preferred with his servant. I found 342: prepare them, and they shall stand before the baptism of the children. And those who are able to speak in the steadfastness of their soul, they shall speak by themselves. And if they are not able to speak, their parents shall speak in their stead, and for each one, one of their relatives shall speak on their behalf. And after they baptize the men, they shall baptize the women. Command that they loosen the binding of their heads, and women shall not sit with ornaments of gold that are upon them, and they shall not lower the costume of death with them, but they shall be hidden in prayer 344. And those who are baptized shall wash in water on the day of Thursday. They shall keep a vigil and they shall say the creed in it. And if it is a case of a woman who is menstruating and a man finds her, she shall wait until she is purified, and on the day of the Sabbath...

The Bishop shall gather those who are to be baptized. And he shall command them to turn their faces toward the East, and he shall lay his hands upon them. And he shall pray, and everything is completed among them. He shall breathe into their faces, and he shall seal them. He shall set them in a path so that they may be vigilant in every holy thing, and prayers. And he shall keep them at the time of the niqset a specific hour of prayer/awakening, so that faith may be far from him. And the Bishop shall pray over the oil of the oil, with which he anoints them; he shall give it to the priest, and he shall stand toward the left. And he shall pray over the oil of unction, which is the oil of thanksgiving; he shall give it to another priest, and he shall stand toward the right. He who anoints her, shall turn his face from the East toward the West, toward the sky, and he shall renounce the devil completely. And their guardians shall hold his right hand. And he shall turn his face toward the East for the appointment of faith, and before he sees the water...

They shall confess his name, saying: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. And then they shall be baptized. And afterwards, they shall receive the Eucharist, and they shall not taste anything until they have finished the Holy Tamrat a book or ritual of miracles/blessings. And likewise, they shall fast with them, and everything is completed. The Liturgy for them is the authority to say what they desire. On the following day they shall receive the Eucharist from the faithful people. The Flesh and the Blood. From the canons, and all that is his, the Son, the son of the bondmaid, who is exalted. And they shall not baptize if they are priests and they are not in good standing; he shall be forbidden from his mission. And if they are laypeople, he shall stay away from the Eucharist. And he shall not give the Eucharist until they are baptized. Canons of the council of the saints. And for the infirmity, he shall not be forbidden, they shall baptize with his hand. At the time they desire. And to the father, the mother, and the child, in the past, in the baptism of Christ, He bestowed upon all men, it is fitting that he opens his mouth by himself.