The Apostolic Canons

The second part of the Sinodos this volume has. Schodde translated the Ge'ez of the fifty-seven Apostolic Canons for the Society of Biblical Literature in 1885 and said in his introduction what they are: “The Canons constitute a part of the so-called Synodus of this church, which is for them virtually a Corpus Juris Ecclesiastici.”

Canon LV is the Ethiopian church's own list of its scriptures, and it names the three books of Kufalé — Jubilees — among them. A canon list inside a canon book, in a volume arranged around the question of who counts what.

Every biblical book in this volume is checked verse for verse against independent reference counts. None exist for this text, so there is nothing to check it against but the scan itself, and it is marked unverified for that reason. Read it as a text recovered rather than as a text verified.

108 words here appear nowhere else in this volume and were left exactly as the scan has them, and nothing was mended. Most of them are not mistakes at all — they are words this library simply never uses elsewhere, and the Ge'ez forms of names — and the rest are the scanner's worst pages, left visible rather than smoothed over.

The scan lost 2 of the printed headings outright, so XXX, XLII get no division of their own and their text reads on inside the one before. The words are all here; the breaks are not.