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The series Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies offers, in the
first place, catalogues of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project,
whose purpose it is to digitize and catalogue collections of
Ethiopic manuscripts in North America and around the world. Beyond
this, though, the series offers a venue for monographs, revised
dissertations, and texts that explore the rich historical,
literary, and artistic traditions of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church. This is a catalogue of the digital collection of
images produced from the first two hundred and thirty nine Ethiopic
manuscripts digitised by the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project
(EMIP). These include 105 codices and 134 scrolls of Ethiopian
spiritual healing. The codices include gospels and other scriptural
texts, liturgies, missals, psalters, hymns and commentaries. Each
catalogue entry is laid out in seven sections: 1. Number, name and
title 2. Physical description and date (including descriptions of
cases and covers) 3. List of contents 4. List of miniatures and
illuminations 5. Varia 6. Notes 7. Quire maps The scrolls of
spiritual healing contain prayers against diseases and natural
disasters, such as epidemics and drought, and against the evil
spirits that are believed to cause them. Many of the scrolls
concern conditions suffered by women, such as menstruation,
miscarriage and infertility. Each catalogue entry contains five
elements: 1. Number, name and title 2. Physical description and
date (including descriptions of cases and covers) 3. List of
contents 4. List of miniatures and illuminations 5. Name of the
owner A particular focus of interest of the Project is on the
scribal techniques and practices in evidence within the
manuscripts, and this has been emphasised in the catalogue
descriptions. Along with its companion volume Ethiopian Scribal
Practice 1, which includes colour images of all the codices listed,
this catalogue provides an invaluable research tool for scholars
and students in Ethiopian Studies. The manuscripts catalogued here
constitute a resource for a wide range of studies, such as the
exploration of developments of scribal and artistic practice across
time, or the interconnections between common elements in
manuscripts, scribal practices, scribal education, and community
ideology.
The Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP),
volume 7, provides a full catalog for the collection of fifty-four
manuscripts in the Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab collection at Mekane Yesus
Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These include one late
fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century manuscript of Jubilees and
the Minor Prophets. Each catalog entry provides a full physical
description, a listing of contents (with incipits), illuminations,
varia (known works added later), notes on codicology and scribal
practice, as well as a full quire map. Opening articles provide an
introduction to the collection, a biography of Alaqa Meseret's life
and work, an introduction to the Ethiopian musical tradition of
Saint Yared, and a study on the textual character of the manuscript
of Jubilees. Four indices (works, names, miniatures, and scribal
practice) provide quick access for the researcher.
The Catalog of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP),
volume 2, provides a full catalog for EMIP codex numbers 106
through 200, and magic scrolls 135 through 284. Each catalog entry
for the codices provides a full physical description, a listing of
contents (with incipits), illuminations, varia (known works added
later), notes on codicology and scribal practice, as well as a full
quire map. Opening articles provide an introduction to the
collection and its codicology, and an introduction to this set of
Ethiopian scrolls of spiritual healing. Seven indices (general,
works in the codices, names in the codices, miniatures in the
codices, scribal practices, works in the scrolls, and names in the
scrolls) provide quick access for researchers.
This book is the companion volume to the Catalogue of the Ethiopic
Manuscript Imaging Project, Volume 1: Codices 1-105, Magic Scrolls
1- 134. It contains at least one plate for each of the 105 codices
described in that volume. But this is designed to be more than just
a plates volume. The editors have selected images from the various
manuscripts to tell a host of stories about Ethiopic manuscripts:
cases (single and double-slip), covers and coverings (including
leather and cloth), the tooling of leather covers, layout of text
on the page (with prickings, columns and scored lines), codex
binding (including primary binding chain stitches and secondary
fixing points with headband and tail band), the marking of content
divisions, iconography and illuminations, the dating of manuscripts
(with colophons and other references to historical persons as well
as through an analysis of the paleography), mirrors and mirror
niches in the inside covers of books, forged paintings, musical
notation and many others.
"The Catalog of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP),
volume 7, provides a full catalog for the collection of fifty-four
manuscripts in the Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab collection at Mekane Yesus
Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These include one late
fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century manuscript of Jubilees and
the Minor Prophets. Each catalog entry provides a full physical
description, a listing of contents (with incipits), illuminations,
varia (known works added later), notes on codicology and scribal
practice, as well as a full quire map. Opening articles provide an
introduction to the collection, a biography of Alqa Meseret's life
and work, an introduction to the Ethiopian musical tradition of
Saint Yared, and a study on the textual character of the manuscript
of Jubilees. Four indices (works, names, miniatures, and scribal
practice) provide quick access for the researcher."
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