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Ethiopic Prayer Book
Not on view
For centuries, African scribes and artisans crafted complex manuscripts made of parchment and wood with a standardized technique developed in the early Byzantine period. Each African region adopted its own production methods. For example, the binding of this book of prayers exemplifies a technique unique to Ethiopia: wood boards sewn with the thread used to attach individual sections. This approach to book production may have been derived from Coptic models.
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