Author: Sergew Hable SelassiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Bookmaking in Ethiopia
Author: Sergew Hable SelassiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Ethiopian Bookmaking
Author: John MellorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Scribes of South Gondar
Author: John MellorsToward a Global Middle Ages
Author: Bryan C. KeenePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606598X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
Ethiopic, an African Writing System
Author: Ayele BekeriePublisher: The Red Sea Press
ISBN: 9781569020210
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide range of knowledge.
How to Make Books
Author: Esther K. SmithPublisher: Potter Craft
ISBN: 0770434193
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a scrapbooker, a political activist, or a postcard collector, let book artist Esther K. Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder. Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun, easy-to-understand way.
Ethiopian Magic Scrolls
Author: Jacques MercierPublisher: George Braziller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ethiopia, mythically Jewish until it was converted to Christianity in the fourth century, was almost isolated from Europe by the screen of Islam after the seventh century. Thus it has retained many cultural features that disappeared elsewhere, among them a tradition of talismanic art. Talismans are not considered products of human kill but part of a "mystery" reproduced through revelation. Thus the Ethiopian genius translated into pictorial language on "magic scrolls" the antique theory of correspondence between men, animals, stars, demons, sicknesses, etc. The artist saw their work as interlaces filled with eyes in order to protect a man as defined by his astrological sign. These paintings were considered to command spirits. This book provides a commentary on these ancient scrolls.--Publisher's description.
Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1
Author: Steve DelamarterPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227901649
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
Ethiopian Manuscripts
Author: David L. AppleyardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952050117
Category : Ethiopian magic scrolls
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ethiopian Scribal Practice 7
Author: Steve DelamarterPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610977068
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
There are many stories to tell about the Ethiopic manuscripts in the collection of the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. The stories about the content of the manuscripts are told in the catalogue (EMTS volume 13). But this volume recounts stories about the book culture that produced the manuscripts. One study provides a general introduction to Ethiopian Christian codicology and the scribal practices in evidence in the collection. Another focuses on the particular story of scribal errors and corrections. And a final study provides an art-historical account of all of the illuminations contained in the collection--even down to the crude drawings in pencil that adorn some pages. Books contain texts. But they are witnesses, first and foremost, to a particular people, at a particular place, at a particular moment in time, who had a particular way of making and using their books. The content of their books tells us about the community's past, about the authoritative texts from antiquity which they valued. But their book culture tells us about their present, about the history of the reception of those works among these people in order to articulate in the present their identity and ethos.