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century are as follows: a life of St. Cyrus with 53 illuminated portraits, a life of St. Graba, a liturgical text with two illuminated portraits, a treatise on the
Trinity, eight Psalters, some with illuminated pages, a Malka Sellasse Trinity, two Mashafa Genzats (burial liturgies), an 18th or 19th century Deggwa (hymnbook) and a second fragment of a Deggwa, a Prayer of Peter along with other religion-magical prayers, another fragment of prayers from a religio-magical text, and a Dersana Michael – four readings for the festival of the Archangel including two 20th century paintings. Included among the 19th and 20th century codices are a Prayer of St. Simon Stylite, a Book of the Miracles of Mary including several illuminations, an Ecumenical book of Mary with two portraits, several Miracles of Mary and similar texts, a Homily Hymnbook of St. Michael with a drawing of St. Michael and one of Haile Selassie, many Deggwas (hymnbooks), Psalters, various prayer books, various liturgical books, numerous Gospels of Johns, other Gospel books, New Testament collections without the Gospels, and many religio-magical books.
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611:, published in 1972, is available online through the Wellcome Library. The Wellcome originally had a collection of 34 manuscripts, acquired between 1913 and 1930. They retained 16 magico-medical scrolls and 1 divinatory manuscript; the remainder were transferred to the library of the British Museum in 1970 and 1971 and are now in the British Library. According to Strelcyn, the Wellcome material "constitutes and good and very representative collection of this kind of Ethiopian literature." The scrolls are dated to the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries based on Strelcyn's assessment of the
810:, Minnesota, that photographs, catalogs, and provides free access to collections of manuscripts located in libraries around the world. The library holds a substantial number of photographic copies of Ethiopian manuscripts. HMML is the home for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML), a collection that preserves microfilms of 8,000 Ethiopian manuscripts—the largest in the world—photographed throughout Ethiopia during the 1970 and 1980s. EMML is also the largest and most important repository for scholarly access to texts in Geʻez, and it records the ecclesiastical owners of individual manuscripts.
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wooden beads, bracelets, rings, a pocket watch, seals, hair ornaments, coins, artwork of various sorts including a late 15th or early 16th century painted diptych and many other diptychs and triptychs of religious subjects, musical instruments including a lyre, a bronze and wood sistrum (a kind of rattle), a one-string violin, a
442:. The uncatalogued manuscripts were revisited in 2007 by Steve Delamarter and Damaqa Berhāna Tafarā. The University of Cambridge has also established a digital library which contains samples from the collections, the oldest of which dates to the 14th century. This collection includes Cyril, ቄርሎስ, Qērellos (Add. 1569) from
930:, Maryland has a small collection of manuscripts and Ethiopian art. Digital catalogues of some of this material is available, notably Walters Ms. W.768, Ethiopic Psalter with Canticles, Song of Songs, and two hymns in praise of Mary. Ethiopian Gospels WDL13018 is available entire through Wikicommons.
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In addition to the manuscripts, there are a variety of religious artifacts: silver pectoral crosses, processional crosses made of various materials (silver, brass, copper, iron, wood) – some on wooden shafts, silver hand crosses, silver star of David pendants, other necklaces – some made of silver or
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shortly before his passing. The Tweed manuscripts are catalogued online. The collection consists of 151 codices and 78 healing scrolls. From the 16th century are fragments of a psalter including illuminations of the
Madonna and child, St. George, the trinity, and the annunciation. Books from the 18th
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on the library's behalf during his research expeditions to
Ethiopia in the 1960s. Subsequently, the library has acquired the extensive collection of Gerald and Barbara Weiner; this consists of 139 manuscripts and 110 scrolls. The Library has made over 50 of their manuscripts visible online in digital
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in Rome. Subsequently, travellers, missionaries, military personnel and scholars contributed to the development of collections outside
Ethiopia. In Europe, the three biggest collections of Ethiopian manuscripts are in Rome (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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has a small collection of
Ethiopic manuscripts acquired from a variety of sources. These are as follows: Or. MS 461-462 Acts of St. George according to Theodotus of Ancyra, with 20 illustrations, between boards; Or. MS 477, Or. MS 644, Or. MS 649, Or. MS 651, Or. MS 654, Or. MS 655 Psalms, Or. MS
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A further collection of 39 manuscripts came to the
British Library from Roger Wenman Cowley (1940-1988). Cowley spent 15 years in Ethiopia as an Anglican missionary and teacher, during which time he assembled a collection of Biblical commentaries in Amharic. His MSS consist of copies on paper
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Catalogues of individual collections were written in the nineteenth century, with a key work for the disposition of
Ethiopian MSS more widely prepared in 1995 and published by Robert Beylot and Maxime Rodinson. Since that time, there have been several disparate initiatives, for example,
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of 58 Ethiopian manuscripts includes illustrated gospel books, psalters and devotional works. Chester Beatty purchased some of the collection at auction in London in the 1930s and bought the rest in the 1950s and later. The manuscripts were studied and published by
Cerulli in 1965.
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American collectors and libraries are relative latecomers to the field, collecting in earnest only from the 1940s. Since that time, the number of acquisitions has far outpaced collecting elsewhere. The largest collections in North
America are at Catholic University, the
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and in London (British
Library). These three organisations together hold about 2,700 manuscripts. Oriental collections of nearly all significant European libraries also have Ethiopian material, with some still pursuing a policy of acquisition.
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André Tweed (1914 – 1993) was an alumnus of Howard University’s Medical School who became interested in Ethiopian manuscripts and bought many codices, healing scrolls, crosses and other artifacts. Tweed arranged for his collection to come to
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The list of institutions below is a partial selection of the most prominent and best known collections, giving special attention to the individual researchers involved in forming the collections and those scholars who wrote the catalogues.
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has a collection of approximately 1500 manuscripts, still largely uncatalogued as of 2012. However a team led by Alessandro Gori undertook a listing exercise with regard to the Arabic materials and published the results in 2014.
450:, during a stay in England in 1661-62. This contains extracts from several texts, a list of over 700 proper names in Ge'ez and copies of correspondence that shed light on the study of Ethiopian texts in the seventeenth century.
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has the largest collection of Ethiopian manuscripts outside of Ethiopia, many donated in the early modern period. In addition, in the 1990s, private collections of considerable size have been published and acquired by the
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acquired a single manuscript of the Gospels dating to the early sixteenth century in 2008. A number of the folios are visible online through the museum's website as well as Wikicommons. It has now acquired some others.
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which increased the number at BnF to more than 970 manuscripts. Zotenberg's work was accordingly followed by a catalogue of the Mondon-Vidailhet collection prepared by M. Chaine. The Griaule collection was published by
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commissioned by Cowley and executed during the years 1967-77 (except for numbers 19-61, 32, 37, 40-42 and 44 which are copies made at different times in the twentieth century). Cowley used this material in his book
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manuscripts. This collection of over 220 volumes, all but one dating from before the 16th century, is one of the largest collections of its kind in Ethiopia. The Gunda Gunde Manuscript Project, based at the
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A Catalogue of Previously Uncatalogued Ethiopic Manuscripts in England: Twenty-Three Manuscripts in the Bodleian, Cambridge University and John Rylands University Libraries and in a Private Collection,
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reviewed the manuscripts that had come to the British Library after 1877 and published a catalogue of them. The catalogue lists 108 items (some with multiple parts) and covers the general range of
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owns 45 items on parchment and paper, dating from the 1600s and later. The majority (31 items) came to the library from the Crawford collection, purchased in 1901. In addition to a copy of the
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in 1905 and 1906. The Princeton collection has continued to grow through gift and purchase, and is especially strong in magico-medical scrolls of which there are now more than 500 specimens.
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Ethiopian manuscripts are known to have reached Europe as early as the fifteenth century, perhaps even earlier, through Egypt, Ethiopian pilgrims to the Holy Land and through members of the
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has a small number of manuscripts in its collection pertaining to Ethiopian history and material culture. Most of the objects were gifted by Jayne Bowerman Hall as a tribute to her husband
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are found in many parts of the world, the monasteries and modern institutions in Ethiopia maintaining extensive collections with some monasteries still centres of manuscript production.
722:(Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ mätṣḥäfä henok). The Princeton manuscript, according to a stamp on the old binding, belong to Rev. H. C. Reichardt who was in charge of the Damacus mission of the
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mostly dating to the twentieth century. However, the first two Ethiopic manuscripts (Or. 262, Or. 4734) came to the library in the seventeeth century thanks to the bequest of
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289:, and consisted of 25 Ethiopic manuscripts purchased by the library in 1843. The collection soon grew to 33 manuscripts and these were catalogued and published in 1848 by
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699:, which documents African medieval stories, paintings, and manuscripts about the Virgin Mary from the 1300s into the 1900s. Also included in the collection are
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or hand piano, eating and drinking vessels such as bowls, vases, water jugs, baskets, a horse-hair wooden wisk, masks, headrests, stools, and a leather bridle.
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includes 30 further manuscripts in the Fonds Caetani. The oldest manuscripts in the collections date to the fifteenth century with some having a provenance of
1378:, University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Published for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 38, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988), review by
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337:, missionaries and linguists who travelled to the country between 1839 and 1842. However, some of the collection has an earlier provenance, for example,
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Catherine Ansorge, A unique treasure: Johann Wansleben’s Ethiopic notes and letters, Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 9 February 2022.
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and gave an account of the 170 manuscripts then in the collection. The Ethiopic holdings were subsequently enlarged by the three collections, those of
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and donated them to Princeton University Library in 1942. The collection is fully catalogued online. The Princeton Library has now posted 153 of its
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Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung)
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Thousands of monasteries and churches in Ethiopia have manuscript collections that are not listed here. Below are some of the important ones.
233:, held primarily in the Département des Manuscrits, have been subject to several cataloguing campaigns. In 1877 a catalogue was published by
24:. First page showing mirror inside front cover with an illustration of Saint George. Written on vellum, tooled leather binding, 8 volumes.
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1988:
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297:(‘Harp of Praise’) (MS. Aeth.e.28). The uncatalogued manuscripts were revisited in 2007 by Steve Delamarter and Damaqa Berhāna Tafarā.
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Ethiopian Scribal Practice 7: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project : Companion to EMIP Catalogue 7
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Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de l'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei: fonds Conti Rossini et fonds Caetani 209, 375, 376, 377, 378
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is available as a pdf; currently, none of the manuscripts have MARC records. Garrett acquired most his Ethiopic manuscripts from
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An informative account in Philip Kurian, "Combating Empire’s Blinkered History: The Landmark Repatriation of Tweed MS150," in
1284:(London: British Museum, 1877), 319, now British Library Add MS 19341. The book was purchased at the Arley Castle sale of 1852.
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Handlist of the Manuscripts in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. The Arabic Materials for the Ethiopian Islamic Tradition,
53:. These gospels are thought to be the oldest surviving Christian illuminated manuscripts, with their dating established by
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and published in 1974. The manuscripts were revisited and published in 2007 by Steve Delamarter and Damaqa Berhāna Tafarā.
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collection to the British Library in 1982 brought 6 further manuscripts to the collection, first acquired in 1842 by the
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http://www.menestrel.fr/?-Inventaire-des-bibliotheques-et-des-catalogues-des-manuscrits-ethiopiens-&lang=enRetrieved
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published a catalogue of the Ethiopian manuscripts that were then under their care. This catalogue was prepared by
45:) was used for Ethiopian manuscripts from the time of the Four Gospel books of Abbā Garimā, generally known as the
1681:"Princeton's Digital Humanities PEMM Project Uncovers Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Stories About Virgin Mary"
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http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20457303#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1.3295%2C-0.0926%2C3.6589%2C1.8513
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V. Six, “Neuzugang von äthiopischen Handschriften an die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz,”
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715:, Missals and Gospels. Divination texts are also part of the collection. Of historiographical interest is the
2019:
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http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/search-resources/guide-to-special-collections/atoz/ethiopian-manuscripts/
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83:, a project hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at the Universität Hamburg.
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Princeton University Library, Book of Enoch, Mäṣḥafä Henok (C0744.03, Garrett Ethiopic Manuscripts, no. 42)
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The André Tweed Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts of Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC
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446:. One item of note is manuscript (Ms Dd.11.38), notes made by Johann Michael Wansleben, otherwise known as
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The British Library is in the process of digitizing and providing its Ethiopian manuscripts online in its
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Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars tertia, Pars tetra
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D. Nosnitsin, "Ethiopian Manuscripts and Ethiopian manuscript studies. A brief overview and evaluation,"
1029:, hosted by MÉNESTREL : Médiévistes sur le net : sources, travaux et références en ligne. See
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http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/242418/unknown-maker-gospel-book-ethiopian-about-1504-1505/
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1537:, Roma 1990; O. Raineri, “Inventario dei manoscritti etiopici ‘Raineri’ della Biblioteca Vaticana”, in
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890:, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1967 to 1971. A catalogue of the collection was published in 2000.
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The Bibliothèque nationale de France has now digitized and provided freely online its collection at
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One of the oldest and most important manuscripts collected by Tweed was a 15th-century copy of the
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Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London
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Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London
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Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London
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The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews From 1809 to 1908
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Princeton has an unusually large collection of Miracles of Mary manuscripts. This inspired the
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2014:
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57:. Apart from Islamic manuscripts, paper only came into general use in the twentieth century.
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Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens (Collection Griaule). Ethiopien 301-304, 675-687 Tome IV
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511:(Ethiopian MS 28), the collection includes a number of magic scrolls (Ethiopian MSS 29-34).
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Stéphane Ancel, Denis Nosnitsin, "On the History of the Library of Mäqdäla: New Findings,"
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794:, contains 375 codices, of which 177 are Islamic, plus three codex quires and 374 scrolls.
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839:, otherwise known as Tweed MS150. After the manuscript was discovered to have been in the
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Ethio-SPaRe – Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation, Research
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Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847
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Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847
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Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847
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Catalogue of Ethiopic Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
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Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1877
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Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens (gheez et amharique) de la Bibliothèque nationale
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See Thomas Kane Pamphlet Collection on Ethiopia/Eritrea at the Library of Congress,
1017:(DNRS Editions; Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Éditions, 1995)
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has a collection of approximately 835 manuscripts, at present largely uncatalogued.
2009:
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http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W768/description.html
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Ethiopian Biblical Interpretation: A Study in Exegetical Tradition and Hermeneutics
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from 1875 until his resignation in 1881. The manuscript was one of several used by
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120:, seeks to preserve a digitized manuscript collection of the monastery's holdings.
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1251:(Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2007).
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Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae Oxoniensis. Pars 7 Pars 7
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http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/collections/web-galleries/ethiopian-collection
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Ted M. Erho and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, "A Manuscript History of Ethiopic Enoch,"
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https://archive.org/stream/journalsofrevmes00isen/journalsofrevmes00isen_djvu.txt
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has an extensive collection of about 3000 manuscripts, assembled in the 1920s by
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1719:(London: London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, 1908), 459.
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The British Museum collections grew in 1868 when 349 manuscripts came after the
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UCLA Library, Digital Collections, a selection of 51 manuscripts visible online
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http://www.cbl.ie/Collections/The-Western-Collection/Manuscripts/Ethiopian.aspx
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See: University of Toronto, Gunda Gunde Manuscripts, Digital Scholarship Unit,
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1976:
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781:, Charles E. Young Research Library, Weddasé Maryam, late 19th century, Ms. 3.
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includes 211 codices and 83 scrolls. The collection also has 1,095 pamphlets.
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1998:
1989:
Walters Art Museum, Illustrated Gospels dating to the 1500s (Walters MS W850)
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Steve Delamarter, Marilyn Eiseman Heldman, Jeremy R. Brown, and Sara Vulgan,
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Howard University School of Divinity, Washington D.C., André Tweed Collection
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1963:. Note: To see the manuscript click through from this page at the bottom to
1923:: Previously Unknown and Uncatalogued Ethiopian Manuscripts in North America
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Rita Pankhurst, "The library of Emperor Tewodros II at Mäqdäla (Magdala),"
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British Library, Illustrated Gospels dating to the late 1600s (Or. MS 481)
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I manoscritti etiopici della Chester Beatty Library in Dublino: memorial
1806:"Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance"
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https://archive.org/stream/catalogueethiopia00bibluoft#page/n7/mode/2up
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Répertoire des Bibliothéques et des Catalogues de Manuscrits Éthiopiens
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The collection at the Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity,
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Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library
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monastery in the 1970s, the manuscript was transferred there in 2016.
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scrolls in France, with over 160 specimens in the Griaule collection.
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in Ethiopia. It is known for its prolific scriptorium, and library of
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Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg Frankfurt am Main
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Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection Mondon-Vidailhet
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Monastery is located in the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone of the northern
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https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/hebrew
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https://digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/collections/gunda-gunde-manuscripts
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Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary project
1891:(Eugene, Or: University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, 2000).
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426:. The collection includes four Ethiopic manuscripts and a scroll.
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https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1918707
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on the collection was written by Princeton librarian Don Skemer.
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http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mc91d3/entire_text/
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Catalogo dei rotoli protettori della collezione Sandro Angelini
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17 (2014): 90-95, dec. 2014. ISSN 2194-4024. Available at: <
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Collectanea in honorem Rev.mi Patris Leonardi E. Boyle, O.P...
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http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/859
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Inventory of Libraries and Catalogues of Ethiopian Manuscripts
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Inventory of Libraries and Catalogues of Ethiopian Manuscripts
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https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/ethiopianmanuscripts/1
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http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/ethiopic/ethiopiancoll/
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656, Psalms, Or. MS 673 Gospels, portion (?), scroll format.
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Scroll containing magical prayers to protect against evil in
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Norma Comrada, Thelma N. Greenfield, and Richard Pankhurst,
1732:, 23, no. 2 (2013), 87-131 (Garrett no. 42, see pp. 105-07).
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Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection Griaule
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University of Oregon, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
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Folio from an illustrated Bible, Annunciation to Zechariah,
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http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0744.03/c0001
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1757:(Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2014), xxii.
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http://libweb5.princeton.edu/mssimages/ethiopic/index.html
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London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews
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1150:(Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1877). Available online at
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Minn.
364:. A catalogue of the enlarged collection was prepared by
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1657:"Project unlocks understanding of Miracle of Mary texts"
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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction
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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction
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438:, just under seventy items in total, were catalogued by
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from Biblical texts to magical and divinatory writings.
341:, written on paper in about 1810 with the book plate of
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William O. and Jayne Bowerman Hall Ethiopian Collection
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https://guides.loc.gov/thomas-kane-pamphlet-collection
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=22755
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See Ethiopian Manuscripts, Cambridge Digital Library,
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
1297:(London: British Museum, 1877), iii. August Dillmann,
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The first catalogue of the collection was prepared by
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National Archives and Library of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
1301:(Londini: Impensis Curatorum Musei Britannici, 1847).
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http://data.bnf.fr/15411049/casimir_mondon-vidailhet/
1831:"Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea"
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Traditional Ethiopian exegesis of the Book of Psalms
1101:"Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea"
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79:, hosted by MÉNESTREL. More stable and ambitious is
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558:of Ethiopian material was studied and published by
542:(1540-1609). Subsequent acquisitions are listed in
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1937:Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
1621:https://rbsc.princeton.edu/topics/316/divisions/15
1179:(Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913). Available online at
1152:https://archive.org/details/manuscritsorient00bibl
882:The Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the
754:had a core collection 64 Ethiopian manuscripts in
546:, an inventory prepared by Rachel Struyk in 1995.
507:(Ge'ez: ፍትሐ ነገሥት) (Ethiopian MS 13) and a deed of
197:holds the collection of 138 manuscripts formed by
1927:Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies (HLCEES)
1541:, (Città del Vaticano, 1998) (Studi e testi 385).
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1996:
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60:There are 88 languages in Ethiopia according to
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1768:http://www.hmml.org/ethiopia-study-center.html
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1137:(Roma: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1976).
806:(HMML) is a nonprofit organization, based in
619:American collections of Ethiopian manuscripts
530:has a collection of about 250 manuscripts in
329:and the materials that had been assembled by
184:
168:European collections of Ethiopian Manuscripts
1971:Cambridge, Trinity College, Psalter (B.13.9)
1352:(London: British Museum Publications, 1978).
1316:https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00097974
1247:Steve Delamarter and Damaqa Berhāna Tafarā,
521:
1705:http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/zc77sr50z
986:Bausi, Alessandro, and Eugenia Sokolinski,
973:Bausi, Alessandro, and Eugenia Sokolinski,
901:, showing the Baptism, Shelf Mark 10-844 b.
656:Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
549:
368:and published in 1877. Nine decades later,
272:
221:Miracle de Notre Dame and Saint Ildefonso,
124:Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
1505:Catalogus van de Ethiopische handschriften
544:Catalogus van de Ethiopische handschriften
300:
151:
1260:British Library, retrieved August, 2016:
317:The founding Ethiopic collections in the
146:National Archives and Library of Ethiopia
1730:Journal for the Study of Pseudoepigrapha
1221:(Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, 1848).
1090:(Pickwick Publications: Eugene OR, 2014.
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213:Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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1388:https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXV.1.181
643:
1554:, also available through archive.org.
1208:(Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1938).
993:
786:Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
752:University of California, Los Angeles
1339:(London: British Museum, 1877), iii.
804:Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
741:
668:who collected 13 items in Ge’ez and
418:The Cadbury Research Library at the
414:Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham
99:Gunda Gunde Monastery, Tigray Region
1365:(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995): 2.
1264:. See further: Isenberg and Krapf,
1013:Robert Beylot and Maxime Rodinson,
339:Extracts from the Chronicle of Axum
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748:Charles E. Young Research Library
397:Ethiopian Biblical Interpretation
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160:Monastery holds Tweed MS150 from
91:Ethiopian collections in Ethiopia
1386:15, no. 1 (1990): 181-183. DOI:
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495:John Rylands Library, Manchester
434:The Ethiopic collections at the
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178:St Stephen of the Abyssinians
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674:Ethiopic manuscripts online
648:The Kane collection at the
583:Wellcome Collection, London
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1945:Supplements to Aethiopica
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1415:. Retrieved January 2024.
1314:36, no. 1 (1973): 15-42.
1230:Retrieved September 2016
1075:Gazette du livre médiéval
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766:. Many were purchased by
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1166:Accessed Sēptembre 2016
1086:Alessandro Gori et al,
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728:Robert Henry Charles
662:Princeton University
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501:John Rylands Library
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1965:Turning the PagesTM
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335:Johann Ludwig Krapf
199:Carlo Conti Rossini
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1792:2016-08-26 at the
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