Parchment Manuscript Magic Scroll Ethiopia

Handwritten parchment in the form of a magic scroll from Ethiopia. End of XIXth or beginning of XXth. 1m60 by 12 cm
Hand-written scroll in black and red ink on parchment in 4 parts, in guèze script, representing an armed character on the first part, the text on the second, on the third part a drawing and a cross on the last. The wasze or ge'ez, or more widely alphasyllabary Ethiopian, is an alphasyllabic writing system used in the Horn of Africa, mainly in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The basic version, originally used to write the wasze, has 26 consonantal signs, which have seven variations (or orders) vocals to denote a consonant followed by various vowels. The alphasyllabary wasze is written from left to right.