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Physical description:
p. 395-405 : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
Ethiopia
Date:
1990
Notes:
Extracted from: Bodleian Library record (Oxford) 13, October 1990, pages 395-405.
The gesture depicted in a fifteenth-century Ethiopian Psalter of Jesus and his disciple St. John the Evangelist embracing and kissing is one that reflects a custom still practiced in some parts of Ethiopia. Other examples of this gesture of affection and brotherhood can be found in Ethiopian miniatures.
