Accession number
MS W.49
Object title
Ethiopian prayer to Jesus Christ.
Display Date
18th or 19th century
Created
18th or 19th century
Binding
Sewn between wooden boards, held in original worn leather case, open at top and bottom.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
28 leaves (1 column, 10-11 lines), bound : vellum ; 51 x 39 mm
Provenance
Stanley Marcus (bookplate on inside front cover); Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles (List no. 57, 1974, no. 4); purchased from Dawson's by Julia Parker Wightman in 1974; JPW 10961; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. Ethiopian prayer to Jesus Christ; written in Ethiopia, 18th or 19th century.
Text: The prayer is a portion of a text published by S. Grebart, "L'hymne-invocation Lesana Sab'e," Aethiopica 3 (1935), p. 6-12.
Text: The prayer is a portion of a text published by S. Grebart, "L'hymne-invocation Lesana Sab'e," Aethiopica 3 (1935), p. 6-12.
Script
Ethiopic
Language
Ge'ez
Century
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