Psalter and other texts

Accession number: 
MS M.911
Title: 
Psalter and other texts
Created: 
Ethiopia, 18th century.
Binding: 
2 wooden boards in two-piece saddlebag case.
Credit: 
Gift of David McC. McKell, 1961.
Description: 
134 leaves (1 column, 25 lines and 2 columns, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 127 mm
Provenance: 
Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, California.
Notes: 

Ethiopian ms. psalter; written and decorated in Ethiopia.
Texts: Psalter and other texts (fol. 1-102v); Song of the Prophets and Prayer of Moses (fol. 102v-113v); Song of Songs of Solomon (fol. 113v-119v); Praise of Mary (fol. 120-134).
According to Gianfranco Fiaccadori, in a note dated Dec. 29, 1983, the manuscript can be dated to the late 18th century and the colophon on fol. 133 contains the following information: (Book) of the (Fitawzari) ... (whose the name) Gebra (Séllase--Cf. PML files.
Has been variously dated from the 18th to the 20th century--Cf. PML files.

Language: 
Ethiopic
Century: 
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