• 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
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