Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Codices 601654, the Meseret Sebhat Le-ab Collection of Mekane Yesus Seminary, Addis Ababa: Vol 7

Brown, Jeremy (Editor)/ Delamarter, Steve (Editor)/ Melaku, Terefe (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0227173856 / ISBN 13: 9780227173855

Published by James Clarke, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Codices 601654, the Meseret Sebhat Le-ab Collection of Mekane Yesus Seminary, Addis Ababa: Vol 7
• Publisher: James Clarke
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0227173856
• ISBN 13: 9780227173855
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 Aläqa 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.

About the Author

Steve Delamarter is Professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Director of the EMIP, Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature's Consultation on the Ethiopic Bible and Literature, and Project Co-Director in the British Library Endangered Archives Programme project in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Delamarter is also head of the steering committee for the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project.

Jeremy R. Brown works in the EMIP as director of digitization and technology. In 2008 and 2009, he served on a digitization team that worked in Ethiopia to digitize about 1,200 manuscripts. Between January and June 2010, he served as Director of Digitization and Conservation in the Endangered Archives Programme grant to digitize the collection at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Kesis Melaku Terefe is a priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Los Angeles, California. He served as cataloguer of the Wolf Leslau collection of Ethiopian manuscripts at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, and for the Robert Garrett collection of Ethiopic manuscripts at the Princeton University Library.