A catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society; also some account of those in the Vatican Library at Rome ... To which are added, specimens of versions of the New Testament into the modern languages of Abyssinia / and a grammatical analysis of a chapter in the Amharic dialect. With facsimiles of an Ethiopic and an Amharic manuscript.

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1823
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Credit: A catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society; also some account of those in the Vatican Library at Rome ... To which are added, specimens of versions of the New Testament into the modern languages of Abyssinia / and a grammatical analysis of a chapter in the Amharic dialect. With facsimiles of an Ethiopic and an Amharic manuscript. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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