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Amharic Ethiopian manuscript.

Accession number
MS W.48
Object title
Amharic Ethiopian manuscript.
Display Date
19th century
Created
19th century
Binding
Sewn between boards, held in worn contemporary leather carrying case; housed in cloth-covered, suede-lined boxcase, leather spine, blind tooled, labeled: Amharic Ethiopian MS. and signed JPW 1975.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
30 leaves (1 column, 10-13 lines), bound : vellum ; 58 x 44 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1975(?); JPW 7612; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. Amharic ethiopian manuscript, prayerbook(?); written in Ethiopia, probably in the 19th century.
Script
Ethiopic
Language
Amharic
Century
Classification