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2. Orthodox Christianity: ETHIOPIC

‘Easter Sunday, 2024, Orthodox Church From exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore in 2023/24 on Ethiopic Art and at the Metropolitan Museum, NY in 2023/24 on the links betwee...’

‘One of the most beautifully illustrated 18th-century amulet scrolls featuring a rider bearing a lance fighting a horned demon armed with a sword. (Or 12859) With the exception of a few works, magic, medicine, talismans, and divination in Ethiopian manuscripts have received little serious scholarly attention. Research on the subject...’

Ethiopian talisman parchment scroll

Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran (Q. 3), verses 17. fols 35v-36r. c. 1750-1850. Siyu(?), Pate Island (Kenya). Scribe unknown. Ink on laid paper. Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Backlit page of a Qur’an on paper from Harar, Ethiopia. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05330.