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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]
"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 ...
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 ...
Those in Ethiopia include the manuscript collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies with as many as 2,000 volumes, [11] and the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia with 880 volumes. [12] Large collections of Ge'ez manuscripts exist in the British Library (more than 598 manuscripts), the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (688 ...
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 work in Ethiopia began 1974 continued throughout 1980s and into the early 1990s, with cameras operating as the country underwent political upheaval and civil war. More than 9,000 manuscripts were microfilmed, forming a collection known as the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML). [15]
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 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.