MATERIAL: Vellum
TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 170 x 280 mm
11.33 in.
COMPONENTS: Manuscript on vellum; 88 leaves; 78 paintings (mostly half-page)
ITEM ID: 388
Ethiopian Liturgical Manuscript
DATE
Year: 1750
Decade: 1750s
Century: 18th (1701-1800)
Notes: mid 1700s
An ethiopian manuscript on vellum with many richly colored and detailed paintings (mostly half-page) in a fine Second Gondarene style. The subject matter is various liturgies and prayers. The text comprises a selection of liturgical texts to be chanted by priests and their congregations, as well as hymns to various saints.
As with most Ethiopian manuscripts, there is no colophon giving a date or place or origin, and the original owner’s name has been erased and replaced with that of one Bes’a’a Giyoris. An endnote says that the manuscript was sent by a Zarubabel, whose title of Abeto indicates that he was a memeber of the hereditary nobility, to ” my friend Sahla Sellase.”
Asia / Africa
This collection houses art and artifacts from China, Ethiopia, India and Japan.
