Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and Two Hymns in Praise of Mary
This beautifully copied and bound Ethiopian Psalter likely belonged to one of the princes of the Gonderite royal family, whose reign ended in 1769. The main text of this undecorated manuscript is written in the ecclesiastical language of Ge'ez while the minor texts are in Amha...
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35288
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manuscript
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normalized
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Gonderite royal family, before 1769; Wälättä Heywät and Wälättä Kidan [added prayers] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1960, by purchase.
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en
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1
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