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The 'TraCES' Project: Towards a New Approach to Studying the Gǝʿǝz Language
The project TraCES introduces a novel research infrastructure for the computer assisted study of the Gǝʿǝz language as it is transmitted in written sources from various periods.... -
The 'True Story' of the Abba Gärima Gospels
As it clearly appears, the problems posed and the considerations suggested by the Abba Gärima Gospels are many and manifold. Leaving aside the problem of C 14 radiocarbon... -
Project: Ethio-SPaRe: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Pre...
The project Ethio-SPaRe: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation and Research was called into life at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies of... -
Diagnostic Analysis and Restoration of Ms. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e C...
The research and restoration of manuscript Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Conti Rossini Et. 70 (Psalter, 18th-19th century) was conducted, within the framework of... -
ʾAbbā Salāmā and his Role of Commissioner of the Gǝbra Ḥǝmāmāt: an Additiona...
Among the Gǝʿǝz translations which, according to the Ethiopian Christian tradition, were produced and promoted by the fourteenth-century Metropolitan ʾAbbā Salāmā, there is also... -
A "Study Manuscript" from Qäqäma (Tǝgray, Ethiopia): Attempts at Ink and Parc...
One of the few items of Qäqäma (Ethiopia) collection which predate the time of Gäbrä Giyorgis is a manuscript (QDGM-010) containing New Testament books: the... -
Exegesis and Lexicography in the Ethiopian Tradition: The Role of the Physiol...
The Ethiopian native lexicographic corpus (the so-called sawāsǝw) and the traditional commentaries (the ʾandəmtā corpus) are intended to explain, with different strategies and... -
The Four Gospel Book of Däbrä Maʿṣo and its Marginal Notes. Part 1: Note on t...
A preliminary assessment of the manuscript collection of Däbrä Maʿṣo Qəddus Yoḥannəs Məṭmaq, a lesser known historical site in East Tǝgray (Gulo Mäḵäda)... -
New critical edition, translation and commentaries of the Aksimaros, or the E...
The Aksimaros is an Ethiopic translation of the Arabic Aksīmārīs, itself translated from the Greek Hexaemeron ascribed to Ephiphanius of Salamis. The Ethiopic version was most... -
Die Quellen von August Dillmanns Lexicon linguae Aethiopicae: Anmerkungen zu ...
Dillmann’s Lexicon linguae Aethiopicae has timeless value in various ways, nevertheless it needs a kind of user’s manual. Even apparently obvious references require... -
Encoding Strategies and the Ethiopic Literary Heritage: The Physiologus as a ...
Producing the Clavis of Ethiopic literature while making the data computer readable for extensive indexing and research purposes is among the aspirations of the project Beta... -
IslHornAfr and its Database of Islamic Literary Production from the Horn of A...
The project IslHornAfr deals with the Islamic manuscript and literary heritage from the Horn of Africa, primarily Ethiopia, but also Eritrea, Somalia/Somaliland, and Djibouti.... -
Encoding and Annotation of Ancient Places in Ethiopia
Encoding places in a text and producing annotations offers scholars several ways to investigate new questions and support their research work. In this paper we present the work... -
Modern palimpsests. The case of the counterfeit Kufic fragments
The article discusses a case of fake "Kufi" fragments offered on sale on the Ebay platform, where Arabic passages were written on top of erased Ethiopic texts. -
The Manuscript Collection of Däbrä Maʿṣo Qəddus Yoḥannǝs (Təgray, Ethiopia): ...
Däbrä Maʿṣo is an ancient church in northern Ethiopia, known to scholars, until recently, exclusively from references in old sources. It was explored in a series... -
The TEI-XML Architecture of Ethiopian Manuscript Archives: Respecting the Int...
The paper illustrates the choices made by the Ethiopian Manuscript Archives collaborative project when defining the TEI-XML schema and architecture for the encoding of charters... -
The manuscript as a leaf puzzle: the case of the Gädlä säma'tat from Ura Qirq...
Dismembered manuscripts are a particular challenge for book conservators, cataloguers, and philologists. The article describes the process and the result of an international... -
Multi-level Digital Annotation of Ethiopic Texts
The GeTa tool has been developed at Hamburg to address the challenge of tokenization and multi-level annotation of Ethiopic texts, with the aim of further computer-assisted... -
The Four Gospel Book of Däbrä Maʿṣo and its Marginal Notes. Part 2. An Exerci...
The present essay continues the series of articles dedicated to the study of the “Golden Gospel” of the church Däbrä Maʿṣo Yoḥannәs (Gulo Mäḵäda,... -
Pricking and Ruling in Ethiopic Manuscripts: an Aid for Dating?
The essay explores the pricking and ruling in Ethiopic manuscripts. A few variations exist in the relative arrangement of the constituent elements defining the page layout:...