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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.

Textiles pastedown on inner board of Ethiopian Christian manuscript. 

Ethiopian Book Heritage Event 2023

Ethiopian prayerbook and book stand

An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium (collection of saints’ lives used in liturgy) with painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board. Tafari Codex 3, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.