Ethiopian Geʽez manuscript
Hello,
I have this old manuscript, the first page of which I post here and I am trying to find what is it about.
Could somebody offer an advice?
Thank you
All the best,
Olvia
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Looks like Amharic text, all right. Perhaps Tes Ghebreab will chime in.
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Thank you
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Yes it is Ge'ez the old Ethiopian language which includes Eritreans as well. It is the prayer to Mary the mother of our Jesus Christ in the way of the Orthodox religion. The orthodox bible has 80 books. It is out of the extra books they have these kind of prayers.
There is no change on the Alphabets, the Amharic ( Ethiopian language ) Tygrigna the official Eritrean language which is my mother language plus Tigre the language of north east and west Eritrea.
Blessings in Christ.
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Great help, Thank you very very much!
All the best to you
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Could you possibly know how old this is?
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Olvia said:
Could you possibly know how old this is?
Example of Geʽez taken from a 15th-century Ethiopian Coptic prayer book.The above shown and the one mentioned before are all similar they are in Ge'ez the word you see "ማርያም" is Mary. This is the Prayer of Orthodox . the Word Orthodox means "Tewahedo" in Ge'ez. if you want to know more about this please use this word and make a search you will get a lot of information about this in Wikipedia. As I have mentioned it just use the word "Tewahedo" and definitely you can learn many things about this.
Blessings in Christ.
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Thank you, Tes. I am interested in learning more about the Ethiopian Church. It has a fascinating history.
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley0 -
Hey Olvia,
It is a parayer written in Ge'ez / Amharic alphabet about st Mary and holysprit intened for during Eucharist or Holy Communion.
Ge'ez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez
Ethiopian Languages: https://www.ethiowebs.com/ethiopian-languages
Ge'ez / Amharic Language: https://www.typeamharic.com/amharic-language
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Dave Belew said:
Hey Olvia,
It is a parayer written in Ge'ez / Amharic alphabet about st Mary and holysprit intened for during Eucharist or Holy Communion.
Ge'ez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez
Ethiopian Languages: https://www.ethiowebs.com/ethiopian-languages
Ge'ez / Amharic Language: https://www.typeamharic.com/amharic-language
Welcome Dave to the Forum . Well done.
Blessings in Christ.
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Hi Olvia, that is really neat you have that, where did you get it? I have a non-profit Museum & Library website (https://www.LibraryoftheBible.org) and am working on an Ethiopian exhibit. In my research, I was thrilled to run across your post. I don't mean to be forward, but might you be interested in possibly donating or selling your manuscript? You can click on my account name and get my email and phone number if so. Regardless thanks for sare ing that, very interesting.
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