Ethiopian Gospels

early 14th century

17 cm 26.7 cm 11.4 cm

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This Gospel Book was written in Tegray, Northern Ethiopia, in the early fourteenth century, and was once owned by the church of St. George in Dabra Maar. It was written by the scribe Matre Krestos in the official liturgical language of Ethiopia, Ge'ez. Most notable is its pref...

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Copied by Matre Krestos in Northern Ethiopia, early fourteenth century. Abba Arkä Sellus; given to Church of Mary of Seku; Church of St. George at Dabra Ma'ar, before 1973. Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection [Nooter 20.15], Washington, D.C.; purchased by Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1996.
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