Bible Text in Gafat

Commissioned by James Bruce (1730–94)

Songs of Songs. Probably translated in 1770/71. Bruce ms. 94, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Further reading

Gafat is a language now extinct. For additional texts, see

Leslau, Wolf. Gafat Documents: Records of a South-Ethiopic Language; Grammar, Text and Comparative Vocabulary. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1945.