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A Preliminary Investigation of the Ṭomarä Təsbə't of Emperor Zär'a Yaʿəqob of Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Getatchew Haile
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Our information to date about the possible existence of a work known as ṭomaräǝsbǝ't or ‘Epistle of Humanity’, by Emperor Zär'a Ya'ǝqob (1434–68) comes from the works of the Emperor himself. It is important that we study closely his description of this work in order to determine whether the contents of a given manuscript could be at least part of the so-called ṭomaräǝsbǝ't, or .

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Articles and Notes and Communications
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 207 - 234
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1980

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