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The library holds a substantial number of photographic copies of Ethiopian manuscripts. [54] 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]
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 ...
The Jesuit missionaries Pedro Páez (1564–1622) and Manuel de Almeida (1580–1646) also composed a history of Ethiopia, but it remained in manuscript form among Jesuit priests of Portuguese India and was not published in the West until modern times.
In 1976, proclamation No. 50/76 gave the library the legal right to collect three copies of every material published in the country. [citation needed] In 1999, the library was reestablished by proclamation no. 179.1999 as a national institution, which resulted in structural changes and the mission to be one of the top five national libraries and archives in Africa by 2020. [2]
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 ...
The Book of Axum [1] (Ge'ez መጽሐፈ ፡ አክሱም maṣḥafa aksūm, Amharic: meṣhafe aksūm, Tigrinya: meṣḥafe aksūm, Latin: Liber Axumae) is the name accepted [2] since the time of James Bruce [3] in the latter part of the 18th century CE for a collection of documents from Saint Mary's Cathedral of Axum providing information on History of Ethiopia.
Based on one manuscript dated to the 16th century. Attested by 2 witnesses. Found in one version of Gadla Iyasus Mo'a. An abridged version exists with 17 names from Agabos to Lebdare, seen by one witness. Probably related to list B. 6 6 20 G: 74 names from Menelik I to Dil Na'od. Based on one manuscript dated to the 18th century. An expansion ...
Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa. Hamburg, 17–19 July 2014. Supplements to Aethiopica. Vol. 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-10430-2.