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Garima 2, also in Ge'ez, is a 322-page folio written by a different scribe. Garima 1 has 348 surviving pages, opening with eleven illuminated canon tables in arcades, followed by the Gospel texts in Ge'ez the Ethiopic language of the Kingdom of Axum from the 4th to the 7th centuries, which became and remains the religious language of the Ethiopian Church. Recent restoration has separated the three books, and repaginated in the original order and volumes relocating a number of folios and miniatures which over the centuries had been displaced between the three manuscripts. Before recent restoration, a third, probably 14th century, gospel book had been bound with Garima 2, and this later gospel was then denoted Garima II. In older reference works, Garima 1 is designated Garima I, while Garima 2 is designated Garima III. There are two manuscripts, Garima 1 and Garima 2, of which Garima 2 is likely to be the earlier. Two pages with illuminated Eusebian Canons from Garima 1, likely the later of the two Garima Gospels Furthermore, the supposed Syrian origin of the Nine Saints is no longer maintained in most recent scholarship. Definitive radiocarbon tests have indeed supported the dating of Abba Garima 2, the earlier of the two books, to the sixth century, but otherwise recent research tends to contra-indicate many aspects of the traditional account, proposing instead that the text-base for the Garima gospels is Greek, not Syriac, that the iconography and palaeography look to Egyptian not Syrian sources, and that the gospel translation witnessed in the Garima gospels had been completed over a century before the traditional dates for the Nine Saints. According to tradition, Abba Garima wrote and illustrated the complete Gospels in a single day: God stopped the sun from setting until the Saint completed his work. Abba Garima is one of the Nine Saints traditionally said to have come from ' Rome' (often thought to refer to Syria), and to have Christianized the rural populations of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum in the sixth century and the monks regard the Gospels less as significant antiquities than as sacred relics of Abba Garima. Monastic tradition ascribes the gospel books to Saint Abba Garima, said to have arrived in Ethiopia in 494. The Gospels were included in the catalog of an American museum exhibition that toured from 1993 to 1996, African Zion: the Sacred Art of Ethiopia, but were never actually lent to the exhibition. They are not known ever to have left the monastery although, as the surrounding area was occupied by Muslims from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, it is possible that they may have remained hidden in a cave for centuries, and then rediscovered.

The Gospels are housed in Ethiopia's Abba Garima Monastery. 1100 or later on the basis of palaeographic analysis. Western scholarship had previously believed both gospels to date from c. As such, they represent amongst the earliest versional witnesses to the early Byzantine text-type of the Gospels, and are the oldest surviving Ethiopian manuscripts of any kind known to modern scholars. Together, the two manuscripts provide the major witness to the Ethiopic version of the Gospels and have been applied as proof texts for the creation of critical editions of the Ethiopic Gospels by Rochus Zuurmond ( Gospel of Mark, 1989 Gospel of Matthew, 2001) and Michael G Wechsler ( Gospel of John, 2005). 390–570, while counterpart dating of samples from Garima 1 proposed a date of c. Monastic tradition holds that they were composed close to the year 500, a date supported by recent radiocarbon analysis samples from Garima 2 proposed a date of c. Garima 2, the earlier of the two, is believed to be the earliest surviving complete illuminated Christian manuscript. The Garima Gospels are two ancient Ethiopic Gospel Books. Evangelist portrait of Mark from Garima 2, likely the earlier of the two Garima Gospels