The donations of King Lālibalā : elements for a geography of the Ethiopian Christian Kingdom at the turn of the 13th centuries – The written documentation on king Lālibalā, produced in the kingdom of Ethiopia when this king was reigning, is composed of three land grants, up to now objects of little scientific interest : the land donation recorded in the gospel preserved in Bēta Medḫānē ‘Alam (Lālibalā) and the two charters of the “Golden Gospel” of Dabra Libānos of Šemazānā. The purpose of this article is to give a new edition of these three texts, with a translation. This work is based on the study of the photographs of the Dabra Libānos gospels taken by Roger Schneider and now available in the Walda Masqal Centre, a department of the Inst...