Ethiopian Manuscripts : Cyril, ቄርሎስ, Qērellos

Ethiopian Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'> This theological work, entitled ‘<i>Cyril</i>’ (<i>ቄርሎስ</i><i> Qērellos</i>) in the Ethiopian tradition, consists of a standard set of writings by Cyril of Alexandria and his contemporary ecclesiastical counterparts including Theodotus of Ancyra, Severus of Synnada, Acacius of Melitene, Juvenal of Jerusalem, Rheginus of Constantina, Eusebius of Heraclea Pontica, Firmus of Caesarea, John of Antioch, Epiphanius of Salamis, Proclus of Cyzicus, Severian of Gabala, and Gregory of Neocaesarea. The work was translated from Greek in the mid-first millennium, and offers a unique witness to a number of otherwise lost patristic works. Based on a note on a front flyleaf, it is most likely that this particular manuscript came from Egypt, perhaps originally belonging to an Ethiopian monk resident at one of the monasteries there.</p>