Overview
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. From the Series Foreword.
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Author: Steve Delamarter ,
Melaku Terefe
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.358kg
ISBN: 9780227173510
ISBN 10: 0227173511
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 28 April 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Published simultaneously with the Catalogue (978-0-227-17350-3), this volume contains at least one plate for each of the 105 codices described there. It selects images from the various manuscripts to physical features of Ethiopic manuscripts, which are explained on pages faces the images. The publications are the first fruit of a project to digitize and disseminate all Ethiopic manuscript in the US and around the world."" Book News Inc., Reference - Research Book News - October 2011 '...the catalogue and the companion volume mark an important step towards the establishing of a better standard of Ethiopic codicology, where quantitative evaluation comes to play a more central role...' Alessandro Bausi, Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, 13 (2010)"
Published simultaneously with the Catalogue (978-0-227-17350-3), this volume contains at least one plate for each of the 105 codices described there. It selects images from the various manuscripts to physical features of Ethiopic manuscripts, which are explained on pages faces the images. The publications are the first fruit of a project to digitize and disseminate all Ethiopic manuscript in the US and around the world. Book News Inc., Reference - Research Book News - October 2011
Author Information
Steve Delamarter teaches Old Testament at the seminary of George Fox University. With Ato Demeke Berhane, he has written A Catalogue of Previously Uncatalogued Ethiopic Manuscripts in England: Twenty-three Manuscripts in the Bodleian, Cambridge University and John Rylands University Libraries and in a Private Collection (Oxford University Press, 2007). Melaku Terefe served the church in Ethiopia for several years in various positions in Awasa (southern Ethiopia) and Harrar (eastern Ethiopia). For the last seven years he has served as priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Los Angeles, California. He is in frequent demand, speaking in various churches throughout North America. He is also the cataloguer of the Wolf Leslau collection of Ethiopian manuscripts at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA.
