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Garrett Ethiopic Magic Scroll No. 44

1770-1830

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Drawings:,Large grid of 9 squares with a central face and eye-motifs in the 4 corner squares, the remaining squares with transverse cross designs; the whole set between two checkerboard bands. (In ink with black, red, pale yellow and olive green color.),Guardian angel with drawn sword and 2 seraphim; the whole set between bands decorated with highly stylized face motifs. (In ink with black, red, pale yellow and pale green color.),Eight-pointed star design with central face and eye-motifs at the ends of each arm. (In ink with black, red, pale yellow and pale green color.),World serpent ("ourobouros") design of two serpents in a circle each biting the other's tail, framed within a square decorated above and below with a chevron pattern. (In ink with black, red, pale yellow and pale green color.),A fish (In ink and without color.)
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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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Garrett Ethiopic Magic Scrolls, box 2, no. 44
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Publisher
[Ethiopia], [between 1770 and 1830]
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Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Language
Geez
Subject
Manuscripts, Ethiopic—New Jersey—Princeton
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