Author: John MellorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Scribes of South Gondar
Author: John MellorsEthiopian 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 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.
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
Author: Jörg QuenzerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110225638
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
Ethiopian Bookmaking
Author: John MellorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church
Author: Christine ChaillotPublisher: LIT Verlag
ISBN: 3643853432
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Christine Chaillots new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little if at all known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles. Moreover, it is a much neglected field in the wider study of African education. It is a teaching based on ancient texts and books, taught orally to the students who will become the future clergy and who will then share their knowledge with the faithful in Church life. The studies of the different disciplines are pursued at different schools and at different levels, in liturgy, theology with commentaries of books (Old and New Testaments, books of the Church fathers and monks) as well as composition of poems (qenes) and iconography. All this teaching presented in the present volume is deeply related to the faith and spirituality of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This teaching is a unique intangible cultural heritage. One wonders, however, what its future will be in the context of the modern educational methods and social attitudes that have evolved in Ethiopia over the last half-century.
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
Author: Alessandro BausiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111292312
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term ‘binding’. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities, convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge.
Aethiopica
Author: Sacred Space
Author: Philip NorthPublisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
We all need our space, and this collection looks at where and how we find sacred space in ourselves and in the wider world.
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha
Author: Siegbert UhligPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description