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Title:Imported textiles in Ethiopian sixteenth and seventeenth century manuscript bindings in Britain
Author:Pankhurst, RichardISNI
Year:1980
Periodical:Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
Volume:15
Pages:43-55
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:manuscripts
textiles
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00672708009511276
Abstract:This study, mainly in the form of a catalogue, describes the different types of cotton and silk cloth imported into Ethiopia between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, as revealed by fragments preserved in Ethiopian manuscripts, mainly from the Gondar area, currently housed in British libraries. Slightly over half the cloth whose provenance has been identified is of Indian origin, but cannot be dated. The remainder came from Turkey and Europe (probably Italy). Most of it would seem to date from around the seventeenth century - and is hence very roughly of the same age as the manuscripts. Notes, pl., ref.
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