Psalms and other texts
Accession number:
MS M.678
Title:
Psalms and other texts
Created:
17th and/or 18th century.
Binding:
18th-century brown morocco over heavy boards, blind tooled, with Latin cross in central panel of both covers; in a double case of brown leather with long ties.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1923.
Description:
Ethiopia, 190 leaves (1 column (fol. 1-170); 2 columns (fol. 171-190)) : vellum ; 167 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy in April 1923.
Notes:
Ethiopian ms. psalms, canticles and hymns; written in Ethiopia in the 17th and/or 18th century.
Texts: Psalms 1-151 (fol. 1-145v); Biblical canticles (fol. 145-161v); Canticle of Canticles (fol. 162-170); Weddase Maryam (hymns to Our Lady Mary for each day of the week) fol. 171-182; another hymn to the Blessed Virgin (fol. 182v-187); praise to God (fol. 187v-190).
Musical notation: ekphonic notation.
Script:
gwelh
Language:
Ethiopic
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