Enrico Cerulli joined in the Fascist goverment installed in Ethiopia in 1926, rising to the post of governer of Harar in 1939. While there he collected a number of manuscripts, and In the 50s and 60s his donations of about 325 Ethiopic manuscripts, of dubious and undocumented provinance, became this collection. Catalogued there are 332 signatures for 329 elements. Numbers 21 and 88 never existed and in 1987 184 and 271 were determined to be part of the same manuscript and combined into 184 pt.A and pt.B. Of these 11 have so far been digitized.
