Ethiopic Manuscript Of Psalter
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jun 1902
name: label: Donor Name
content: S S. Howland
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Written in black and red on parchment; bound in wooden boards, and covered with tooled leather. Ethiopic, of Geez, belongs to the Semitic family of languages. It is still used by the Abyssinians in the church service and religious literature, while as vernacular it has been, since the 10th century, superseded by Amharic. The Ethiopic version of the Bible was made in the 4th century."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ethiopia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Abyssinian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039535
label: USNM Number
content: E216156-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Manuscript