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Ethiopian Coptic manuscript on vellum.

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Ethiopian Coptic psalter on vellum. Writing in black and red ink, in Ethiopic Ge'ez. Illuminated vignettes painted in green, red, and blue, appear after every tenth Psalm. Original thick wooden boards, sewn in Coptic style. Vellum ruled by the scribe with plummet, visible pricking in the margin...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bible.
Format: Manuscript
Language:Ethiopic
Subjects:
Psalters > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Coptic Church > Ethiopia > Liturgy > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Vellum printed books > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Coptic bookbinding > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Coptic illumination of books and manuscripts > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Ethiopic language > Texts > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
Manuscripts, Ethiopic > Early works to 1800 > Specimens.
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Summary:Ethiopian Coptic psalter on vellum. Writing in black and red ink, in Ethiopic Ge'ez. Illuminated vignettes painted in green, red, and blue, appear after every tenth Psalm. Original thick wooden boards, sewn in Coptic style. Vellum ruled by the scribe with plummet, visible pricking in the margins, evidence of red fabric "tabs" in fore-margins.
Item Description:Title devised by bookseller.
The Cushing Library/Lauglin Collection copy contains a typewritten analysis by Dr. Emeri Johannes van Donzel (1925-2017), a specialist in early Ethiopian history and culture, at the time (before 1970) a researcher at Leiden University Dept. of Oriental Lanugages and Institute for Geography and Ethnography (later Director of the Netherlands Institute of the Near East, 1974-1990) (4 leaves, 2 copies); a handwritten leaf (Semjon Lass, consultant in ethnic art) of Geez numerals with translation; and booksellers description.
Physical Description:147 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm