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Prayer scroll with red-tinted drawings

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What: A prayer scroll with three red-tinted pen drawings

Where: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL

The catalogue describes: “Prayers, charms and incantations for diseases and evil spirits: Manuscript”. 

Label and date:
“Maqdala 1868 display, 5 April 2018 – 30 June 2019″

Museum number:
MSL/1869/187

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