Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/830
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jf 1] Furst Day /O . 82} Collection of twenty-six Rolls on parchment in Ethiopic and Amharic, containing versions of the fight between Stsyends ‘and the arch-_ crosses, names, etc.; 16¢h-19th Cent. (26) OPP GET INE leather ; 16mo Wel 10. ‘ (#4) arge Collection of Magical Prayers in Amharic and Ethiopic, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 89 folios, with occasional ~ illustrations in pen-and-ink ; 18th Cent. boards, linen cover ; 8vo 85 Mashafa Berhin, a compendium of religious duties, compiled by King Zar‘a Ya‘ kob, Amharic MANUSCRIPT on parchment, 31 folios ; 18th Cent,, boards ; 8vo 86 Martyrdom of St. Mercurius, Ethiopic MANUSCRIPT on parchment, 50 folios, fine hand of the 17th century, with one unfinished drawing in colour of the Saint, tooled leather ; 8vo 87 Psalms, Biblical Hymns, Weddasé Maryam, etc., MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM in Ethiopic, 187 folios, with occasional ornamentations in coloured inks; 17th Cent., boards ; 8vo 88 Kammavacam, a Pali MS. of the Buddhist Ritual for the ordination of Priests, written in black lacquer in liturgical Pali, on 16 sheets of gilt copper, with wood covers decorated in red and gold; with description (2) 88a ArFr SHiRAZI: Khamsah. A Persian MS. written in Nasta’liq in double columns within gold and coloured rules on 231 leaves, with four illuminated sarlouhs, the opposing pages decorated in gold, and two miniatures; no scribe or date, but late 16th Cent. Imperfect, the whole of the first book missing and part of the fifth book ; stamped leather binding ; 8vo B3
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