Glory of Kings (Amharic Oral Version). | MS S.17 | Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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Accession number

MS S.17

Object title

Glory of Kings (Amharic Oral Version).

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.

Script

Ethiopic script

Language

Amharic

Century

20th century

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Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Display Date

1952.