I think it's very important that the series include current mis-information (the Fox News Tablet) and the frequent underlying hateful messages in this Memes Tablet. A number of manuscripts are in leather carrying cases, which allowed them to be worn over the shoulder or hung up on pegs in walls.This whole series of tablets is about communication: how we communicate now, and in the past, how information is lost and shared. The manuscripts are bound in a traditional style reminiscent of early Coptic Christian codices in Roman and Byzantine Egypt, for which reason they are sometimes characterized as "Coptic." The quires of the manuscripts are sewn with unsupported link-stitch and then laced into rough-hewn wooden boards, sometimes covered in leather, often blind-tooled. Texts are written in black and red ink on parchment one manuscript is paper. ![]() Precise dating of Ethiopic manuscripts remains difficult. But at least ten are probably from the eighteenth century, and at least one (Miracles of Mary) is probably from the seventeenth. Most of the manuscripts in this collection date from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Worthy of special note are the variant Miracles of Mary and a rare Cycle of the Kings. Included among the Ethiopic manuscripts are 16 Psalters, 7 Miracles of Mary, 6 Images, 4 prayer books, 3 Homilies of Michael, 3 Synaxariums, 2 Anaphoras of Mary, 2 antiphonaries, 2 Missals, 1 Gospel of John, and 1 collection of divination texts. Many of the Ge'ez manuscripts have varia or marginalia in Amharic two texts are mostly Amharic. 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. 16: Tablets With Engravings of Saints Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, C0776, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library System Identifier: /repositories/5/archival_objects/1179111 Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research use. Similar to Princeton Ethiopic collection no. 1v: Several words in Ge'ez appear: "Biyäzä Wä'iyəkäwən fəre wa" (Ge'ez words and letters strung together without clear meaning). 2r: Engraving of Saint George slaying the dragon.įol. 2v right bottom: Engraving of a face with halo. ![]() 2v left bottom: Engraving of an angel with drawn sword. 2v right top: Engraving of a face with a halo. 2v left top: Engraving of Jesus Christ being struck on the head, titled Kurə'at'a Rə'əsu. ![]() 1v right: Engraving of Abba Zä-Mika'əl (Arägwi) of Däbrä Damo, one of the nine saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. 1v left: Engraving of Abunä Gäbrä Mänfäs Qədus, an Ethiopian saint. 1r: Engraving of Abba Samuel of Walddəba, holding a long cross and riding a lion. Slates tied together with string yarned through three holes Languages: Geez Amharic Description: One side of each tablet has only one engraving, the other side has four engravings. Special Collections Dates: 1800s Located In: Item 16 Extent: 1 item Physical Description: Two tablets. Collection Creator: Princeton University.
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