Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
March 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/40
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32581 PSALTER, complete (including tlie 151st Psalm on the Slaughter of Goliath), followed by the Song of Moses, 13 other Scriptural Canticles, and the Song of Songs; concluding with an Office to the Virgin Mary, in the old Ethiopic or Geez language, sm. 4to. MS. on vellum, in the original oak covers, and preserved in the original leathern case, with straps for wearing round the body, £7. Sec. XVI A curious picture of the Virgin and Child, painted on vellum, is inserted. 32582 PSALMS (including cri); Canricues; Sone or Sonas, and the Weppask Maryam (Praises of the Blessed Virgin Mary), in Hthiopic, smallest 4to. Manuscript on Vellum, in the original oak boards, covered with leather, £8. Sec. XVIII 32583 — a similar MS. sm. 4to. written on Vellum, in the original wooden boards, enclosed in a leather case, with straps, £10. Sec. XVII 32584 another MS. of the Psalter and Prayers, ete. in Hthiopie, small 4to. written on parchment, and bound in wooden boards, with a leather backing, £4. Sec. Xv11 32580 Psatmorum Liber et (16) alia Cantica Biblica AVthiopice; cum Syllabario Linguarum Chaldearum (MWthiopicarum) ; impressum ingenio et impensis Joannis PoTKnrn, sm. 4to. fine woodcut of King David harping, printed in red ink on the first leaf, hf. bd. 28s . Rome, 1513 32586 — the same, 4to. fine copy in red morocco eatra, £2. 1518 32587 PsaLreRium Davidis, Athiopice et Latine, cum notis; acc. Hymni et Canticum Canticorum, Athiop. cura Ludolfi, sm. 4to. title only in Ethiopie for circulation in Africa, bds.5s Francof. 1701 382588 PsattreRIuM Davidis, Hthiopice, 4to. bds. 2s Soe tots 32589 ScuraveR de Lingue Aithiopice cum cognatis linguis comparate Indole universa, 4to. sd. 2s Gottinge, 1860 82590 TAMHERA MARIAM; Miracles of the Virgin Mary, en Geez or ancient Hthiopic, square folio, MS. written on vellum, numerous Miniatures, most of them full-page-size, representing the highest development of Abyssinian pictorial art; in a_ stout native binding of stamped russia or morocco, with silk lining, £110. | A.D. 1522 These legendary stories are followed at the end of the volume by some devotions to the Virgin. The date is obtained from an inscription, in which the scribe Michael states that he began his work in the seventeenth year of the King’s reign, the King being determined by the numerous prayers in which he is referred to by name as David (1505-40). 32091 Wricut (W.) Catalogue of the Ethiopic MSS. acquired since 1847, impl. 4to. aii and 366 pp. with 13 facsimiles, cloth, 28s — 1877 This catalogue describes 408 volumes, the greater number of which were obtained from Magdala at the time of the expedition against King Theodore. It forms a continuation to that prepared by Dr. Dilmann, and published by the Trustees in 1847. (See Preface.) This latter comprises descriptions of 82 volumes, and can still be obtained, price 10s. _ *
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