Mäzmurä Dawit - Psalter [18th century] Psalter [18th century]

MS NO. 85 191f. Psalms of David The bookblock- all folios are very deformed and dirty on all surface. Extremely damaged are first pages of the book. Many of them are gelatinized and partly transparent . All folios are yellowish, with brownish edges, very brittle and shrunk. The glass-like layer, as an effect of gelatinization process of the parchment on all margins, can be observed. There is a large loss of parchment in the spine area in upper part of the bookblock. The lower corner is stained and shrunk. The binding- a limb leather wrapper is very shrunk, deformed and dark.