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E.Or Ms 461: Gadala Georgios (The Life of St George); Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George). Vol. 1 of 2, undated (c. 18th C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 461

Scope and Contents This is a copy of Gadla Giyorgis (The Life of St George), CAe 1455, and Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George), CAe 4006, according to Theodotus of Ancyra, and in two volumes (E.Or Ms 461 and 462).The contents of the current volume are:7ra–91rb: Gadla Giyorgis (The Life of St George)Supplications for Tawalda Madḫǝn (fols 18ra, 58ra, 60ra, 91rab, 158vb,...

Dates: undated (c. 18th C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 462: Gadala Georgios (The Life of St George); Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George) Vol. 2 of 2, undated (c. 18th C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 462

Scope and Contents This is a copy of Gadla Giyorgis (The Life of St George), CAe 1455, and Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George), CAe 4006, according to Theodotus of Ancyra, and in two volumes (E.Or Ms 461 and 462).The contents of the current manuscript are:5ra–72ra: Gadla Giyorgis (The Life of St George, CAe 1455).73ra–121vb: Taʾāmmǝra...

Dates: undated (c. 18th C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 649: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 649

Scope and Contents

This is a protective scroll. It is paper, 186 by 9 cm, and constituted of 4 joined sections. It is written in the Ge'ez script, with red ink decorations at the head of each section.

Dates: undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 651: Ethiopic New Testament, Vol. II. The Book of Acts and the Epistles, undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 651

Scope and Contents A copy of the New Testament, including Acts and Epistles, on vellum. It includes one miniature painting which is inserted loose between a paper flyleaf and fol. 1. It measures 17 by 16.5 cm, smaller in size than the main manuscript. The leaf contains a depiction of King David and could date from the 16th century.3ra–145vb: New Testament Epistles 147ra–193rb: ActsDetailed description: fols 3ra–23ra: Romans; 23ra–43va: 1 Corinthians (23ra–23va: Introduction,...

Dates: undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 654: Ethiopic Manuscript [Collection of prayers], undated

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 654

Scope and Contents

This Ethiopic codex may be a collection of prayers. It has a frontispiece illuminated in red and black ink, and text is written in two columns throughout. Specialist research is needed.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 673: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 673

Scope and Contents

This is a protective scroll. It begins with an illumination in yellow, blue, brown and black, featuring three figures and a type of ornate cross. There are five sections of text down the length of the scroll, each separated by an illumination. There are six illuminations in total. They feature human images, crosses and patterns. Specialist research is needed.

Dates: undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

E.Or Ms 686: ʾArdǝʾt (‘The Disciples’); a protective scroll, undated (c. 19th-20th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: E.Or Ms 686

Scope and Contents

An Ethiopic codex and scroll, together in a small leather pouch.

The codex contains ʾArdǝʾt (‘The Disciples’) a magico-apocryphal text. This is the Christian recension (as opposed to the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel/Ethiopian Jewish recension).

The second item is a protective scroll.

Dates: undated (c. 19th-20th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Illuminated calligraphic manuscript entitled "A Selection from the Collects", by Louisa Mary Freeman, c 1880

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Identifier: Ms.Add.5

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This is a manuscript entitled "A Selection from the Collects", by Louisa Mary Freeman. Each page is highly illuminated, and includes a prayer and a note indicating when to recite said prayer (for example 'Sixth Sunday after Epiphany', and 'Ninth Sunday after Trinity'), a decorated initial, and richly illuminated borders.

Also includes a contemporary carte de visite portrait of Louisa Mary Freeman, taken by Hennah & Kent in Brighton.

Dates: c 1880

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)

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Identifier: La.III.439

Scope and Contents This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...

Dates: 1607 (dated)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

La.III.522: Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)

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Identifier: La.III.522

Scope and Contents MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....

Dates: 1570-1624 (approximate)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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E.Or Ms 461: Gadala Georgios (The Life of St George); Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George). Vol. 1 of 2, undated (c. 18th C.E.)

E.Or Ms 462: Gadala Georgios (The Life of St George); Taʾāmmǝra Giyorgis (The Miracles of St George) Vol. 2 of 2, undated (c. 18th C.E.)

E.Or Ms 649: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

E.Or Ms 651: Ethiopic New Testament, Vol. II. The Book of Acts and the Epistles, undated (c. 17th–18th cent. C.E.)

E.Or Ms 654: Ethiopic Manuscript [Collection of prayers], undated

E.Or Ms 673: Ethiopic Scroll, undated (c. 19th cent. C.E.)

E.Or Ms 686: ʾArdǝʾt (‘The Disciples’); a protective scroll, undated (c. 19th-20th cent. C.E.)

Illuminated calligraphic manuscript entitled "A Selection from the Collects", by Louisa Mary Freeman, c 1880

La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)

La.III.522: Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)

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