Accession number
MS S.17
Object title
Glory of Kings (Amharic Oral Version).
Display Date
1952.
Created
Ethiopia, possibly Addis Ababa, 1952.
Binding
20th-century tooled red morocco.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
74 leaves (1 column, 8 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 133 x 206 mm
Provenance
Commissioned by John Wilkinson Kickland (inscription on fol. 67r); E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ethiopian ms. Glory of Kings (oral version; story of the meeting of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba); written and illuminated in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa?, July, 1952 (inscription by scribe on fol. 2: "finished 24th day of month of Hamle" / end of July, 1952).
Decoration: 66 full page miniatures. The manuscript alternates with 8 lines of text on the versos, faced by the miniatures on the following recto.
Artist: Yohannes Tägännä.
Scribe: Çäkol Tägännä.
Decoration: 66 full page miniatures. The manuscript alternates with 8 lines of text on the versos, faced by the miniatures on the following recto.
Artist: Yohannes Tägännä.
Scribe: Çäkol Tägännä.
Script
Ethiopic script
Language
Amharic
Century
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