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Ethiopian historiography includes the ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern disciplines of recording the history of Ethiopia, including both native and foreign sources. The roots of Ethiopian historical writing can be traced back to the ancient Kingdom of Aksum (c. AD 100 – c. 940).
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon 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 William O. Hall , U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1967 to 1971. [ 60 ]
Written in Ge'ez, it told of the history of the Oromo and their 16th-century migration into what is now central and western Ethiopia. [6] This work was significant because it is the only documentation of the Oromo people in the 16th century. Bahrey also authored The History of King Sarsa Dengel which chronicles the reign of Emperor Sarsa Dengel ...
The archives was established in 1979, and its collection includes ancient and historical manuscripts written from as early as the 14th and 15th centuries. [3] It started functioning with archives from the Ministry of the Grand Palace, Palace of the Crown Prince, and others. The archive includes letters written by several kings, empresses, and ...
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.
The emperor commissioned Taye to write a history of Ethiopia and would later award him with a gold medal. [2] Taye's first published historical work was a social history of Ethiopia in 1922 titled Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia"). [2] Taye also wrote a general history of Ethiopia but died before it could be published. [2]
As a result, many Ethiopian manuscript collections and other materials from Ethiopia are found in European museums and libraries. Ethiopian studies began a new era in 1963 when the Institute of Ethiopian Studies was founded on the campus of Haile Selassie University (which was later renamed Addis Ababa University ). [ 4 ]
The text is known from one nineteenth-century manuscript discovered from the treasury of Tewodros II. After the military defeat of Tewodros II to the British Empire, the British came to possess his manuscripts in which they (re)discovered the Ethiopic Alexander Romance. [1] The manuscript has been itemized as British Museum Oriental 826ff. 2a ...