ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT. - Lot 34

Lot n° 34.BIS
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ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT. - Lot 34
ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT. Illustrated liturgical manuscript written in Ge'ez. (Ethiopia), (ca. 18th or 19th century). Small in-4 (17 x 19 cm), (157) ff. of text on ca. 18-20 lines per page, wooden boards split and sewn to facilitate reading (tarnished edges, occasional lateral perforations without harming the text rather due to the defect of the skin, some shrinkage and scratches, soiling stains, perforations ff. 35, some minimal lateral soiling, ff. 54 sewn back in lower margin, an addition in violet ink ff. 52). Early Ethiopian manuscript, with marginalia and graffiti. Text written in black ink, rubricated in columns with titles and names of saints in red ink. Drypoint ruled copy. On vellum skin, written in Ge'ez, the liturgical Semitic language of the Ethiopian church. A significant artifact of their centuries-old Christian culture is the production of illuminated texts in one of the world's oldest languages, still used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. With sketches of figures, an ornamental band painted at the head of the text on ff 152-153, a crowned figure, a horseman, perhaps the Archangel Saint Michael, and later graffiti in pencil.
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