Ethiopic psalter and other texts : manuscript, [15--?].

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Ethiopic psalter and other texts : manuscript, [15--?].

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Ms. psalter together with prayers, songs, and other texts. Includes the "Song of Songs" (Solomon) on fols. 118r-125r, and "The Encomium of Mary," divided into sections for reading each day of the week as indicated by the rubrics, on fols. 126r-136r. Also includes an Arabic-Amharic vocabulary (fol. 1r-v), the Ge'ez alphabet and syllabary (not complete) and numerals (fol. 125v), a continuation of Arabic Amharic vocabulary (fol. 142r), another song to Mary "Peace be unto you, O Virgin Mary ..." (fols. 140v, 142r), a calendar of annual festival days of saints and angels (fols. 142v, 143r), a short magico-medical prescription (fol. 143r), and another calendar of festivals added by a later hand (fol. 144r).

1 v. (144 leaves; 1 column [fols. 1r-125r, 143r-144r, 2 columns [126r-142r, 23 lines) : vellum ; 9 x 12 cm.

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