Manuscripts in Ethiopia and Eritrea are for the most part still preserved by church parishes, scattered all over the highlands, often in places difficult to reach. There is no reliable figure for the total number of surviving Ethiopic manuscripts, the numbers are likely in hundreds of thousands: there are between 13,000 and 34,000 active parishes in Ethiopia and Eritrea, each in the possession of at least several manuscripts, with biggest collections counting several hundred codices (e.g. c. 570 manuscripts are preserved at Dabra Bizan, and 220 (and formerly up to 800) in Gunda Gundē). While the assumed numbers are very high, the number of historical – most valuable for researchers – manuscripts is diminishing at a quick pace as they are gradually substituted by more recent ones. Field research confirms that over 90% of each manuscript collection is composed of manuscripts dating from the nineteenth and twentieth century. This does not diminish, or rather, on the contrary, this underlines the necessity to record what has survived until today. Older manuscripts, often in bad state of preservation, disintegrated and/or incomplete, are frequently not assigned the value they deserve.
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Open Access Journal: Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
[First posted in AWOL 4 April 2015, updated 20 July 2017]
Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
eISSN: 2194-4024
“Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” is an internationally refereed academic journal, edited at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies and at the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies of the Asien-Afrika-Institut at Hamburg University. It is annually published in a printed version by Harrassowitz and one year later as an open access journal by Hamburg University Press.
The journal focuses on history, archaeology, linguistics, literature, philology, manuscript studies, art history, ethnology, anthropology, religion of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Horn of Africa, their methods, and related issues.
“Aethiopica” is the only German journal on Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. It is internationally acknowledged as one of the leading academic journals in the field.
“Aethiopica” is published mainly in English. Articles in French, German and Italian are also accepted for publication. An English Summary is always provided.
The editors welcome contributions on current academic topics and on recent and fresh research belonging in the field.
Articles should be theoretically grounded, empirically sound and reflect the state of the art in the respective fields. Articles should not exceed 10,000 words, including the summary and the list of relevant bibliographic references.
Miscellaneous contributions should focus on a specific topic believed to be of special interest to the academic discourse. Miscellaneous contributions should not exceed 3,000 words.
For Personalia, Review Articles and Reviews potential authors are usually directly contacted by the editorial team on suggestion of the scientific editorial board. Proposals, however, can always be submitted.
The upper limit for Personalia is fixed on 1,500 words, for Review Articles on 3,000 words and for Reviews on 2,000 words.
1998
Vol 1 (1998)
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Thursday, June 8, 2017
Open Access Journal: Annales d'Éthiopie
Annales d'Éthiopie
eISSN: 2077-0820
eISSN: 2077-0820
Depuis 1955, les Annales d’Éthiopie rendent compte des travaux menés par les chercheurs français et éthiopiens en archéologie et en histoire. Les Annales d’Éthiopie publient des articles en français et en anglais sur l’Éthiopie et la Corne de l’Afrique. La revue est à ce jour l’une des deux seules revues internationales consacrées aux recherches menées dans cette région de l’Afrique orientale.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Ge'ez Grammars Online
Courtesy of The Ancient Bookshelf
One can easily fit all of the Ge'ez grammars that have ever been published in European languages on one shelf. Or, if you want to save some of that shelf space for your Wheel of Time novels, you can put most of those grammars on a flash drive/memory stick instead. Here are some of the Ge'ez grammars that are available as PDFs (or in the google books reader) online:
Chaîne, Marius. Grammaire éthiopienne. 1907.
Dillman, August & Carl Bezold. Trans. James A. Chrichton. Ethiopic Grammar. 1907.
Dillman, August. Grammatik der äthiopischen Sprache. 1857.
Dillman, August & Carl Bezold. Grammatik der äthiopischen Sprache. 1899.
Ludolf, Hiob. Grammatica aethiopica. 1661.
Mercer, Samuel. Ethiopic Grammar, with Chrestomathy and Glossary. 1920.
Praetorius, Franz. Aethiopische Grammatik. 1886.
Praetorius, Franz. Grammatica Aethiopica. 1886.
Vittorio, Mariano. Chaldeae, seu Aethiopicae linguae institutiones. 1630.
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