Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1904, Vol. 25: First Half The nawmse'ript from which the following text is published was acquired in 1900 in Jerusalem, and forms now No. 4 of my small collection of Ethiopic manuscripts. It consists of 81 leaves of heavy parchment, measuring 19 X 13 centimeters. The written space measures 13 X 10 centimeters 011 an average. This space is divided into two columns with a space of 1 cm. Between them, each column containing 19 lines of bold but very regular and well executed writing. The character of the script and the condition of the parchment indicate that the manuscript is scarcely later than the 17th century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.