GORDON DAVIS
COLLECTION OF ETHIOPIAN
MANUSCRIPTS AND COPTIC BIBLES
MS 88-13
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COLLECTION OF ETHIOPIAN |
| Box 1 | Work 1 | A Bible and case in the Geez language of the Coptic Church from Axum, Ethiopia. It is covered with two wood pieces, front and back, and is written in red and black ink. It comes with a leather case which is hand sewn and a leather strap is attached. |
| Box 1 | Work 2 | Four sheets of parchment from Adua, Ethiopia. It is used to make Bibles, books, etc. |
| Box 1 | Work 3 | A bottle of ink from Adua, Ethiopia which is made from local minerals and is used for writing. |
| Box 1 | Work 4 | A song book and leather pouch from Adua, Ethiopia from the Coptic Church. It is used by priests to aid in leading songs. |
| Box 1 | Work 5 | A scroll for birth from Adua, Ethiopia which is hung above a bed when women are pregnant to ward off the evil eye. It is handwritten with drawings of eyes, writings, and the devil. The top end is worn. There are eyes at the beginning of the scroll, and in the middle of the scroll there are many eyes and faces, and at the end of the scroll the devil is killing a man with a knife. |
| Box 1 | Work 6 | A scroll for birth from Adua, Ethiopia which is used over a bed of a pregnant woman to ward off evil spirits. There is a cross at the beginning, an angel in the middle, and eyes at various places. |
| Box 1 | Work 7 | A Bible from Adua, Ethiopia of the Coptic Church handwritten with black and red ink in the Geez language. It is leather topped over wood. |
| Box 1 | Work 8 | A Bible from Axum, Ethiopia of the Coptic Church handwritten with red and black ink in the Geez language. It begins with the Psalms. It is topped with tooled leather with a cross design over wood. |
| Box 1 | Work 9 | A Bible from Axum, Ethiopia of the Coptic Church handwritten with black and red ink in the Geez language. It is covered with wood front pieces. |
| Box 1 | Work 10 | An Amharic Revised Bible, 1966, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is published by the British Foreign Bible Society and is the Amharic version of the Protestant Old and New Testaments. |
| Box 1 | FF 1 | Contains some handwritten note in English explaining what is in work 8 and work 10 from David Suter to Gordon Davis (See donor file: Gordon Davis, for more information on all the works). |