Add. 696 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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An Ethiopian hymn book and an incomplete version of The Arganona Wəddase

1r-1v
Title: Address to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Language(s): Geez
2r-3v
Title: Three Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Language(s): Geez
4r-4v
Title: Address to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Language(s): Geez
5r-83v
Title: Arganona Wəddase
Language(s): Geez

Arranged for the days of the week: f. 5 Monday; f. 26 Tuesday; f. 47v Wednesday; f. 68v Thursday (incomplete)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 83 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 16.2 × 14.0 cm.

Layout

18-19 lines per leaf

Hand(s)

Small and good.

Binding

Part of the original plain boards; the back supplied by modern brown morocco.

History

Origin: 19th cent. CE; Ethiopia.

Provenance and Acquisition

Unknown

Record Sources

Description based on Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard.Cambridge University Press.1961

Availability

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Bibliography

    Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library / by Edward Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright ; with a contribution by D.A. Hubbard., Ullendorff, Edward (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1961)

Funding of Cataloguing

CUL

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