Bible Text in Gafat

Commissioned by James Bruce (1730–94)

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

(adapted from a scan of the Bruce manuscript no. 94
at the 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. [Archive.org]