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BOOK OF OFFICES FOR THE NIGHT [MÄS'HAFÄ GEBRÄ LÉLIT], in Ge'ez, ILLUMINATED ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM by Abba Giyorgis of Gesach'a. Bound with HYMNS OF PRAISE TO THE TWELVE APOSTLES [SÄLAMS]. [Ethiopia, ca. 1800]
200 x 142mm, 29 leaves, including initial and final blank (the second text is incomplete at beginning and end), collation: 1-64 74+1. Written in black ink, rubrics in red, the first text [up to folio 20] has 21 lines in a much finer hand than the second [folios 21-28] of 17 lines, with pricking marks throughout the first text. 17 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in bright colours (most of the miniatures are a little rubbed). Contemporary wooden boards, goatskin back.
THE SUBJECTS OF THE MINIATURES ARE:
folio 2. Virgin and Child
folio 2v. Christ crowned with a wreath of thorns (the icon Kwer'atá Re'esu)
folio 3. The Crucifixiom
folio 3v. Christ preaching
folio 4. Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist
folio 4v.David cutting off Goliath's head
folio 20v. St.George on his white horse, killing the dragon
folio 24. Two figures, probably monks
folio 24v. The same two figures
folio 25. The Virgin giving a dog water to drink, two women looking on
folio 25v. The Annunciation
folio 26. Two male figures, probably monks
folio 26v. Christ preaching at Lake Gennesaret, he is holding a fish
folio 27. The temptation of Christ by the devil in the wilderness
folio 27v. Christ and the woman at the well (severely rubbed)
folio 28. The lapidation of Saint Stephen
folio 28v. Three male figures
200 x 142mm, 29 leaves, including initial and final blank (the second text is incomplete at beginning and end), collation: 1-64 74+1. Written in black ink, rubrics in red, the first text [up to folio 20] has 21 lines in a much finer hand than the second [folios 21-28] of 17 lines, with pricking marks throughout the first text. 17 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in bright colours (most of the miniatures are a little rubbed). Contemporary wooden boards, goatskin back.
THE SUBJECTS OF THE MINIATURES ARE:
folio 2. Virgin and Child
folio 2v. Christ crowned with a wreath of thorns (the icon Kwer'atá Re'esu)
folio 3. The Crucifixiom
folio 3v. Christ preaching
folio 4. Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist
folio 4v.David cutting off Goliath's head
folio 20v. St.George on his white horse, killing the dragon
folio 24. Two figures, probably monks
folio 24v. The same two figures
folio 25. The Virgin giving a dog water to drink, two women looking on
folio 25v. The Annunciation
folio 26. Two male figures, probably monks
folio 26v. Christ preaching at Lake Gennesaret, he is holding a fish
folio 27. The temptation of Christ by the devil in the wilderness
folio 27v. Christ and the woman at the well (severely rubbed)
folio 28. The lapidation of Saint Stephen
folio 28v. Three male figures