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A 14th-15th century Book of the Rite of the Holy Week (OR 597)

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What: A 14th-15th century Book of the Rite of the Holy Week, including details of an excommunication by the abuna Yemrehana Krestos

Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB

Ref: OR 597
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_597

Provenance:
Stamped inside the cover: “Presented by the Secretary of State for India Aug. 1868”
Listed as part of the “Magdala collection” in William Wright’s Catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1847

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