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A Coptic bible, 19th-century, hand-written in Ge'ez, with eight gouache illuminated miniatures in bold colors, hand-stitched in contemporary wooden boards with inset portraits of the Virgin and Child and Christ on the Cross, 177ff. Faint aroma to leaves; some intermittent soiling to pages. Accompanied by contemporary folding stand.


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Date:
2013-08-07

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