However the Andemta commentary has now at least been printed for a number of books of the bible Psalms, the 5 books of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Ezekiel, the 4 gospels, Acts, the letters of Paul, the Catholic letters, and Revelation. He encountered great difficulty even in identifying manuscripts. 1988) worked in Ethiopia for 15 years, and managed to amass copies of the entire collection, which he bequeathed to the British Library. The commentary is little known in the West. The Geez OT is based on the Septuagint, rather than the Hebrew text. The commentary does discuss textual variants and emendations, showing that the authors are aware of scribal issues. The Andemta commentary is an explanation in Amharic of passages in the Ethiopian biblical, patristic and liturgical books, themselves written in Geez. This is divided into four sections, which cover the Old Testament, the New Testament, Patristic works, and Monastic canons and texts. In Amharic, the main biblical commentary is known as the Andemta commentary.