File:Illuminated Manuscript, Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and Two hymns in Praise of Mary, Walters Art Museum W.768, Upper board outside.jpg
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DescriptionIlluminated Manuscript, Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and Two hymns in Praise of Mary, Walters Art Museum W.768, Upper board outside.jpg |
English: This beautifully copied and bound Ethiopian Psalter likely belonged to one of the princes of the Gonderite royal family, whose reign ended in 1769. The main text of this undecorated manuscript is written in the ecclesiastical language of Gǝ‛ǝz while the minor texts are in Amharic, added at a later time. While the colophon and an early eighteenth-century hand suggest that the original manuscript only contained the 151 Psalms of David, other texts such as the fifteen Canticles, Song of Songs, Weddase Maryam (Encomium of Mary) and the Anqasa Berhan (Porch of Light) were added in the nineteenth century to create a more complete Psalter. More unusual texts, unrelated to the Psalter, have also been added, for it begins with a homily admonishing the clergy to conduct themselves well spiritually, and ends with directions for undoing charms. The life of the manuscript can be traced not only in these cumulative texts, but also in added prayers for later owners, of which there are at least twelve appended to the ends of the Biblical texts. |
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