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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This prayer scroll was written in the nineteenth century to protect its owner, Wäldä Giyorgis. The front of the scroll contains prayers against evil which invoke the help of the Archangel Phanuel, while the back contains prayers requesting things as diverse as luck in love, help with headaches, and the protection of domestic animals. Scrolls such as these would have been worn as protective devices, and were made the length of the owner in order to protect them from head to foot. With a length of 151 cm, it can be inferred that Wäldä Giyorgis stood just under 5 feet tall.
Principal cataloger: Getatchew Haile
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Isaac, Ephraim
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Holbert, Kelly, ed. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2001, p. 41, fig. 13.
Strelcyn, Stefan. Catalogue of the Ethiopian Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired since the Year 1877, London (1978), no. 81, 4, p. 128. See for first text, front of scroll.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Ethiopia
19th century CE
roll
The primary language in this manuscript is Geez. The secondary language of this manuscript is Amharic.
Created in Ethiopia, nineteenth century, for Wäldä Giyorgis
Joseph Dietrich, Alexandria, VA, date unknown
Gene Guerny, Arlington, VA, acquired from Joseph Dietrich before 1997
Gift of Gene Guerny, 1997
Ethiopia
19th century CE
roll
The primary language in this manuscript is Geez. The secondary language of this manuscript is Amharic.
Created in Ethiopia, nineteenth century, for Wäldä Giyorgis
Joseph Dietrich, Alexandria, VA, date unknown
Gene Guerny, Arlington, VA, acquired from Joseph Dietrich before 1997
Gift of Gene Guerny, 1997
This prayer scroll was written in the nineteenth century to protect its owner, Wäldä Giyorgis. The front of the scroll contains prayers against evil which invoke the help of the Archangel Phanuel, while the back contains prayers requesting things as diverse as luck in love, help with headaches, and the protection of domestic animals. Scrolls such as these would have been worn as protective devices, and were made the length of the owner in order to protect them from head to foot. With a length of 151 cm, it can be inferred that Wäldä Giyorgis stood just under 5 feet tall.
Principal cataloger: Getatchew Haile
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Isaac, Ephraim
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Holbert, Kelly, ed. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2001, p. 41, fig. 13.
Strelcyn, Stefan. Catalogue of the Ethiopian Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired since the Year 1877, London (1978), no. 81, 4, p. 128. See for first text, front of scroll.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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