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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. [55]
The IES Library collects in the field of Ethiopian Studies (in the humanities and social sciences) [1] and also preserves Ethiopian manuscripts. Its Woldämäskäl Memorial Research Center holds most of the Institute's rare publications and manuscripts in Ge’ez, Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopian languages.
Monastic tradition ascribes the gospel books to Saint Abba Garima, said to have arrived in Ethiopia in 494. [3] Abba Garima is one of the Nine Saints traditionally said to have come from Rome, and to have Christianized the rural populations of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum in the sixth century; and the monks regard the Gospels less as significant antiquities than as sacred relics of ...
As of 2023, approximately 450,000 manuscripts have been digitized or microfilmed in partnership with more than 800 libraries worldwide. After HMML staff catalog the manuscripts, data and digital images are made available online in HMML Reading Room. More than half of these manuscripts are accompanied by high-quality digital images.
An Ethiopian Quran held in the Melikian Collection was recently exhibited at the Toledo Museum of Art's recent exhibition Ethiopia at the Crossroads. Made in 1773, this Quran manuscript uses a palette of primarily black and red ink; the red is used for the surah headings, marginal zigzagging commentary, margins, and the black used for the ...
An Outline of the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia. Aethiopica Vol. 10: 92–105. WION, Anaïs, "The National Archives and Library of Ethiopia: six years of Ethio-French cooperation (2001-2006)", available on Open Archive Repository HAL-SHS and to be published in the Acts of the Enno Littmann Conference, Aksum, Dec. 2005.
Gunda Gunde Monastery (Tigrinya: ገዳም ጉንዳ ጉንዶ Gädam gunida gunido) is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastery located to the south of Adigrat in the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It is known for its prolific scriptorium, [1] as well as its library of Ge'ez manuscripts. This collection of ...
"The manuscript as a leaf puzzle: the case of the Gädlä Sämaʿtat from ʿUra Qirqos (Ethiopia)" (PDF). COMSt Bulletin. 1. Di Bella, Marco; Sarris, Nikolas (2021). The Conservation of a fifteenth century large parchment manuscript of Gädlä sämaʿtat from the monastery of ʿUra Mäsqäl: Further conservation experiences from East Tigray ...