Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Bound manuscript, with parchment pages and wood panels covered with white cloth and stitched together with cotton cord. Color illustrations verso , with text opposite in black and red lettering with illumination. This manuscript is a collection of 'Salamat' , or homilies to angels.
Devotional Book
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Devotional Book

Maker Ethiopian Artist
Date18th-19th century
MediumPigment on parchment, wood and cloth
Dimensions6 in. (15.2 cm)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LinePartial gift of Richard Faletti and Museum purchase. Funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Endowment, Michael A. Singer and the David A. Cofrin Art Acquisition Endowment
Object number2003.10.15
Collections
Visual DescriptionBound manuscript, with parchment pages and wood panels covered with white cloth and stitched together with cotton cord. Color illustrations verso , with text opposite in black and red lettering with illumination. This manuscript is a collection of 'Salamat' , or homolies to angels.
Hokusai manga (Random Sketches by Hokusai) Vol.9
Hokusai manga (Random Sketches by Hokusai) Vol.9
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
19th century (possibly 1819)
Protective Scroll with Angel (Michael or Fanuel)?
Protective Scroll with Angel (Michael or Fanuel)?
Ethiopian Artist
19th-20th Century
Protective Scroll with Samuel of Waldebba Riding His Lion
Protective Scroll with Samuel of Waldebba Riding His Lion
Ethiopian Artist
19th Century
A right-bound cover stitched with red thread, featuring a dense blue pattern of overlapping stylized mountains, huts, cranes, and circular emblems. Four large red Japanese characters, each enclosed in a blue circle, descend vertically on the left side. The four red characters read top to bottom are 日本の紙 (Nihon no kami), which translates to "Japanese paper."
Japanese Hand-Made Paper, Volume II, Western Japan
Seikichiro Goto
1960
Folded page with painting of Christian images of Virgin and Christ child, flanked by images of saints. Done in the Gunda Gunde style.
Gunda Gunde Bifolio
Ethiopian Artist
late 15th-early 16th century
En Grece par Monts et par Vaux
En Grece par Monts et par Vaux
Fréderic Boissonnas
1909
Onna Daigaku- Culture Book for Women
Onna Daigaku- Culture Book for Women
Japanese Artist
Edo period (1615-1868), 1603-1867
The Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book
The Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book
Guerrilla Girls
Updated 2012
An Illustrated Folio from a Bhagavata-Purana Manuscript
Kṛṣṇa asking for the moon (Sūrsāgar)
Indian Artist
c. 1810
A page of a French newspaper in columns featuring black-and-white sketches. Illustrations depict a train on a mountain viaduct, a thin standing man beside a large, seated figure with crutches, and two separate groups of people.
La Saison Des Eaux
Gustave Dore
undated
A black-and-white newspaper illustration titled "BOHÈME PARISIENNE". A central standing figure holds a drawing or painting on board, facing several seated and reclining individuals on the right. Framed pictures hang on the wall, and various objects clutter the floor in the foreground.
Boheme Parisienne
Gustave Dore
undated
Family with Angels. A winter landscape with a bare tree, a man, a woman and a child below two hovering angels.
Family with Angels
Alyne Harris
late 20th century

Collections research is ongoing. Information provided on the Harn’s website about collection objects may be updated, revised, or enhanced at any time.

Harn
Copyright © Harn
null