• Organ of Praise of the Virgin Mary (Argānona Weddāsē)

Description:

• Parchment.41 folios, 2 columns [fols. 31-141], 15-16 lines. Single wooden board (front), stitched and open spine.
• Forms part of: Robert Garrett Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts.

Date:

• 1630-1670

Range label:

• Logical

Donor:

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Abstract:

• Endnotes: [19th cent. hand] prayer against typhus, malaria, etc., fol. 1r.

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Publisher:

• [Ethiopia], [between 1630 and 1670]

Subject:

• Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton

Language:

• English

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/vx021j935

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Extent:

• 1 item ; 18 x 20 cm

Call number:

• Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts no. 15

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Contents:

• 1. Folio 1v-2r. A Prayer against Wild Animals
• 2. Folio 2v-4v. Theological Exegesis on the Mystery of the Eucharist 17th-century hand.
• 3. Folio 5r-6v. A Prayer to the Virgin Mary Different 17th cent. hand.
• 4. Folio 6r. Part of a Hymn to the Virgin Mary
• 5. Folio 7r-141v. Argānona Weddāsē Incomplete, divided into sections for Monday through Sunday. Leaves missing between fols. 131 and 132, also 134 and 135. Texts finishes in abrupto fol. 141v.

Location:

• Special Collections Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts no. 15

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99123667033506421