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Collection of Magico-Medical and Divination Texts

1830-1870

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Endnotes [various hands]: fidal (1st order syllabary) and number signs, together with a magic prayers, fol. 10r; commands for overcoming evil spirits, fol. 10v; magic figures and a prayer against rheumatism, fol. 46r-v; prayer against various ailments, fols. 46v-47v; various magical prayers, fols. 73r-77v.
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Part of Ethiopic Manuscripts
This is an open collection of Ethiopic codices (bound manuscripts), which are chiefly written in Ge'ez (sometimes called Ethiopic), the scholarly and liturgical Afroasiatic language of Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as well as five related items.

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Call Number
C0744.03 (Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts no. 87s)
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Publisher
[Ethiopia], [between 1830 and 1870]
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Language
Geez
Subject
Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton
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