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Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran (Q. 3), verses 17. fols 35v-36r. c. 1750-1850. Siyu(?), Pate Island (Kenya). Scribe unknown. Ink on laid paper. Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Page opening of the Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran, with red and black calligraphy.

Qur’an from Siyu, Kenya. Fowler Museum, UCLA.
Page opening of the Fowler Qur'an with striking red, orange, and black calligraphy at right.

Folk repairs to a broken wooden cover of an Ethiopian Life of Abune Gebre Menfes Qidus.
Folk repairs to a broken wooden cover of an Ethiopian Life of Abune Gebre Menfes Qidus.

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Eyob Derillo, standing, opening a book on a traditional bookstand.

Amulet scroll on parchment. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00001.
Scroll displayed on stand, unrolled to reveal an angel in blue with sword raised overhead.

Eyob Derillo, Hagos Abrha Abay, and Gelila Tilahun with David Fernandez and the Hidden Stories core team, with Ethiopic manuscripts in front.

A binding of a small Ethiopian book with wooden covers and folk mends. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
A hand holding a small Ethiopian book with wooden covers and folk mends to show its binding.

An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium (collection of saints’ lives used in liturgy) with painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board. Tafari Codex 3, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium manuscript with colourful painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board.
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