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The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea creates a portal that manages the entry, presentation, and analysis of data related to the manuscript tradition of...

The Coptic text of the Acta Phileae matches closely the Ethiopic text, that probably goes back directly to a Greek Vorlage and is therefore decisive for a correct...

The Shepherd of Hermas is a document of considerable significance for the history of the early Christianism, and the Ethiopic version (Gǝʿǝz Herma näbiy), translated from a...

What can be done with data about the manuscript tradition of Eritrea and Ethiopia using Text Encoding Initiative and Linked Open Data? In Digital Approaches to Ethiopian and...

The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel, the Jews of Ethiopia, has not been studied before. This article aims to provide a first tentative analysis of a number of...

A finely illuminated Ethiopic Psalter dating to the fifteenth-sixteenth century, sold on auction in 1983 and still in the possession of an unknown private collector, was made...

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:...

The present essay continues the series of articles dedicated to the study of the “Golden Gospel” of the church Däbrä Maʿṣo Yoḥannәs (Gulo Mäḵäda,...

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...

Dismembered manuscripts are a particular challenge for book conservators, cataloguers, and philologists. The article describes the process and the result of an international...

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...

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 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.

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

A preliminary assessment of the manuscript collection of Däbrä Maʿṣo Qəddus Yoḥannəs Məṭmaq, a lesser known historical site in East Tǝgray (Gulo Mäḵäda)...

The Ethiopian native lexicographic corpus (the so-called sawāsǝw) and the traditional commentaries (the ʾandəmtā corpus) are intended to explain, with different strategies and...