THE LIFE OF TAKLA HAYMANOT IN THE VERSION OF DABRA LIBANOS, AND THE MIRACLES OF TAKLA HAYMANOT IN THE VERSION OF DABRA LIBANOS, AND THE BOOK OF THE RICHES OF KINGS. [Two Volumes]

Budge, E. A. Wallis [Editor]

Published by Privately Printed for Lady Meux, London, 1906

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Elephant Folios, Two Volumes; G-; Full brown cloth, tooled, with gilt lettering to spines; Boards show moderate wear to cloth along joints, light plus bumping to corners, light wear to edges, light plus wear and discoloring overall, and several instances of minor worming; Textblocks have light shelfwear and age-toning to marbled edges, several instances of moderate worming to endpapers and subsequent pages, and varying degrees of light to moderate plus age-toning and foxing to pages throughout interiorly; Three leaves (half-title through titlepage) of Volume One are loose, but intact; All original 165 color plates are intact; Marbled endpapers; CONTENTS: Vol. I. (viii, lxiv, 243 pages (with 112 interleaved plates, numbered cxii)) -- Vol. II. (pp. 244 - 396, 142 pages).JR Consignment. [Shelved Room A Elephant]. Edited and prepared by the premier Egyptologist and philologist of the time, E. A. Wallis Budge, this work was specially commission by Lady Meux after a meeting with His Highness Ras Makonnen, 'Governor of Harrar and the Dependencies of Ethiopia. ' The Ras was deeply impressed by the illuminated manuscripts in Lady Meux's museum, and he encouraged her to reproduce 'an illustrated Ethiopic manuscript of a character which would be of special interest to His Highness …' Lady Meux commissioned Budge to edit and prepare two hagiographies of the Ethiopian Saint, Takla [Tekla] Haymanot, from a manuscript (identified as "Oriental 723") held by the British Museum. The volumes include 165 plates of illuminated manuscripts, English translations of the respective texts, and a typeset version of the Ethiopic text. 1362370. Special Collections.

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• Title: THE LIFE OF TAKLA HAYMANOT IN THE VERSION OF DABRA LIBANOS, AND THE MIRACLES OF TAKLA HAYMANOT IN THE VERSION OF DABRA LIBANOS, AND THE BOOK OF THE RICHES OF KINGS. [Two Volumes]
• Publisher: Privately Printed for Lady Meux, London
• Publication Date: 1906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition: 250 copies.
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