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The majority of manuscripts are in Ge'ez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. Catalogues and Online Resouces. 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. [ 4 ]
Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia") was published in 1922 and was Taye's first published historical work. [2] [7] The book was reprinted with some changes multiple times over the years, in 1927, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1965 and 1971, with its first English translation appearing in 1987 based on the first edition. [8]
Garima 1 has 348 surviving pages, opening with eleven illuminated canon tables in arcades, followed by the Gospel texts in Ge'ez; the Ethiopic language of the Kingdom of Axum from the 4th to the 7th centuries, which became and remains the religious language of the Ethiopian Church. Garima 2, also in Ge'ez, is a 322-page folio written by a ...
Bible translations into Geʽez, an ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiopian branch, date back to the 6th century at least, making them one of the world's oldest Bible translations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Translations of the Bible in Ge'ez , in a predecessor of the Ge'ez script which did not possess vowels, were created between the 5th and 7th ...
In other parts of the New Testament, the Ethiopian translation represents an early Byzantine text-type. In the 12th to 14th centuries, the Ethiopian translation was harmonized with the Arabic text-type. [75] Over three hundred manuscripts containing one or more books of the New Testament have been preserved.
The manuscripts are grouped as follows: European manuscripts: Cod. 1-15000 (old holdings) Cod. Ser. n.1-50178 = Codices Series nova - new acquisitions from about 1870; Armenian manuscripts: Cod. Armen. 1-34 = Codices Armeniaci; Ethiopian manuscripts: Cod. Aethiop. 1-45 = Codices Aethiopici
Amharic became the first African language to be translated into Latin. [5] Gorgoryos's other accomplishments include developing a Ge'ez lexicon, co-authoring encyclopedias for both Amharic and Ge'ez as well as contributing to Ludolf's book A History of Ethiopia. Another important figure in this era is the Ethiopian monk Abba Bahrey.
Getatchew Haile (Amharic: ጌታቸው ኀይሌ, romanized: Gētachew Ḫäyilē; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021) [1] was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language [2] and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles). [3]