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 "corpus": "kebra-nagast",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-20/02",
 "title": "Kebra Nagast (The Glory of the Kings) in Ge'ez — Beta maṣāḥǝft TEI",
 "edition": "Kebra Nagast (Kǝbra nagaśt, 'The Glory of the Kings'), Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT1709Kebran, Ge'ez edition division 'rhced' (TEI P5), commit 3550dc59 of 23 October 2026",
 "language": "gez",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Universität Hamburg; Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg) publishes these TEI files under CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as each file's <licence> states. Where an edition division names its basis — 'Text of the EOTC printed Bible'; 'transcription of Vanderkam's edition by Ran HaCohen' — the statement is recorded with the work as given; the archive asserts no other licence for the text. The seated files are redistributed under the same licence, attributed to Beta maṣāḥǝft.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
 "origin": {
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    "source": "Beta maṣāḥǝft (Universität Hamburg), BetaMasaheft/Works",
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  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
 },
 "works": {
  "count": 1,
  "units": "one text file per work",
  "list": [
   {
    "slug": "kebra-nagast",
    "work": "Kebra Nagast — Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT1709Kebran, Ge'ez edition text (173,618 Ethiopic characters), the incipit and 119 chapter divisions",
    "text": "text/kebra-nagast.txt",
    "originals": [
     "original/betamasaheft/1001-2000/LIT1709Kebran.xml"
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    "lines": 359
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  ]
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 "normalization": "TEI reduced to plain text by code: each edition division headed '##### edition <id> (<lang>) — <its note>'; each textpart '=== <subtype> <n> ==='; each <l>, <p> or verse-less <ab> one line, prefixed with its n where the file gives one; <label> kept in brackets; editorial notes and apparatus inside the text omitted (they stand in the seated TEI under original/). The TEI files are the witnesses.",
 "scope": "The Kebra Nagast whole in Ge'ez as Beta maṣāḥǝft edits it. Carl Bezold's critical edition (Kebra Nagast: Die Herrlichkeit der Könige, Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1905) is public domain and was not found in an open scan in this pass: QUEUED. Budge's English (1922) is a translation and is not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Kebra Nagast, incipit — 'በአኰቴቱ ፡ ለእግዚኣብሔር ፡ አብ ፡ አኃዜ ፡ ኵሉ'",
  "chapter 1, its title — '፩ ፡ በእንተ፡ ክብረ፡ ነገሥት፡' ('On the glory of the kings')"
 ],
 "loci_not_found": [],
 "lines_total": 359,
 "why_seated": "The Ethiopian national epic of Solomon, the Queen of Sheba and their son Menelik, who carries the Ark of the Covenant to Aksum: the book that tells how the canon beside it came to Ethiopia. Seated with the canon (EA-CORPORA-20/01).",
 "spine": "Kebra Nagast",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim?\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}