A few uears ago, Roger Cowley edited an interesting text of the Tamhartä haymanot in older Amharic with an English translation under the title given above. The text is of special value to te study of the history of Amharic: it is relatively lengthy (14 fols., 2 cols., 12 lines to a column and 6–8 characters to a line), in prose, and shows most of the features of archaic Amharic known so far. In spite of the fact that, to use the author's own words.