[Letter, 15 July 1904, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Woldah Haimanot of the British Legation to Charles Singer in answer to his enquiry concerning the customs and religious practices of the Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) (original)].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Letter, 15 July 1904, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Woldah Haimanot of the British Legation to Charles Singer in answer to his enquiry concerning the customs and religious practices of the Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) (original)].
Classmark: MS ROTH/*284
Creator(s): (author); Singer, Charles Joseph (1876-1960)(editor)
Date(s): 1904
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 bifolium : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115618
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Summary:
The item contains the original letter by Woldah Haimanot with annotations and corrections by Charles Singer in preparation for its publication in the Jewish Quarterly Review; in tailmargin of folio 1r there is a stamp which reads: "Received & entered at the University Press, Oxford 20 Sep. 04".
The letter was published on behalf of Singer as planned (see below Bibliographical note).
State of text: Acidic.
Bibliographical note:
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858470205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth MS ROTH/*284 made on behalf of the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitized form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. *284.
Published in:
Charles Singer and Woldah Haimanot, "The Falashas," JQR 17 (1904): 142–7, https://doi.org/10.2307/1450882.
Physical characteristics
Pagination: bifolium; paginated in ink, upper corners, as 1–4.
Ruling: printed vertical rulings; 34 lines.
Number of lines: 34.
Script: Latin cursive script.
Ms. document: width 211mm height 335mm
Binding
Held folded in half inside a stiff paper cover.
Former owners and annotations
Annotations and corrections by Charles Singer.
Roth acquired MS Roth *284 most likely after 1950; it is not listed in his, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 503–35.
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