12.6.1 Introduction

Psalm 151 is part of the Ethiopian canon (1.1.5), and as such, is included in virtually every Ethiopic Psalter copied and printed by Ethiopians (I.10.4.3). The earliest extant manuscripts (from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) suggest that it came over from a Greek Vorlage with little alteration (12.3). However, in the last seven centuries, the subsequent developments in Ethiopia have led, by sta…