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Ge'ez book of semi-magical prayers

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S99

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Ge'ez book of semi-magical prayers

Date(s): [1900]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript book of semi-magical prayers in Ge'ez.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Ge'ez

System of arrangement:

Single item

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Physical characteristics:

Bound volume, [gazelle] skin pages, with wooden board binding. Kept in a double leather bag called a 'mahdar' with a strap, presumably for hanging the item.

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No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Presented to the College Library by Roy Dobbin. Dobbin gives the following information about this item, although the reliability is unknown: 'This Ethiopic manuscript was the property of a priestly medical man in Abyssinia. In cases of sickness he opened the book at any page and where he put his finger on the page was the remedy. The book itself has no medical matter in it, I believe. The monk who used it was a quack and had no medical training whatever...It was not for long in his hands.' (Ref: B6/32).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to the College Archives in April 2008.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.