ጸሎት (Prayers and Incantations — Ethiopian magic manuscript)

An illuminated headpiece (haräg) at the top of the page features an interlocking geometric and floral pattern in red, green, and yellow ink. On the left side of the frame, a stylized human face is integrated into the design.

Behold the measure of the sheep: the life of the 12 stars that existed, [it] stood in the 12 days, one that rises in the time of its rising... the face of the angel is like a lamb, and there were 40. That of Fanuel a prominent angel in Ethiopian tradition, the measure changes like 30. The suffering is symbolic. He said: let them be turned. His appointment is finished. From that knowledge, judgment and righteousness. He becomes an exile, and he does not endure. Wisdom is quickly filled in him from the kings and rulers in the world, whose time...

...he becomes, he seeks his father and his armies. They become mighty. In the place of the heathen, he records [it], as if he were afflicted. He does not cross over except for his death. He goes out 1 time in the winter, in the month of July. They are held fast in their time. The heavenly one is present, [the] hidden ones in the armies 4. And they perform with it a remedy. The jar that is honored in the sea, which is with the oil, his body... the lesser sinners... [if] he is counted, in September they are reconciled. They cut it with a knife.