Manuscripts from one of the world's oldest continuous literary traditions. The Ethiopian canon preserves texts found nowhere else — including the complete Book of Enoch, the Kebra Nagast (Glory of Kings), and the Fetha Nagast (Law of the Kings). Written in Ge'ez, the classical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, these manuscripts span from illuminated medieval gospels to magical prayer scrolls.
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Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum
August Dillmann; William Wright
1877•422 pages•Ge'ez
ፍትሐ ነገሥት (Law of the Kings — Legal Code of the Ethiopian Empire)
Anonymous
1750•307 pages•Ge'ez
ገድለ ሐዋርያት (Acts of the Apostles — Manchester Ethiopic MS 6)
Anonymous
1400•516 pages•Ge'ez
መዝሙረ ዳዊት (Book of Psalms — Ge'ez Manuscript)
Anonymous
1750•394 pages•Ge'ez
መዝሙረ ዳዊት (Psalms and Apocrypha — Ge'ez, BnF Ethiopien 15)
Anonymous
1700•362 pages•Ge'ez
The Book of Enoch (Ethiopic text)
R.H. Charles (trans.)
1893•450 pages•Ge'ez
The Book of Jubilees (Ethiopic text)
R.H. Charles (ed.)
1902•380 pages•Ge'ez
The Ethiopic Liturgy
S.A.B. Mercer
1915•516 pages•Ge'ez
The Octateuch in Ethiopic (Genesis-Ruth, Ge'ez text)
A.B. Boyd (ed.)
1909•446 pages•Ge'ez
The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast)
E.A. Wallis Budge (trans.)
1922•402 pages•Ge'ez