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Title Postface de l'ouvrage "Codicologie du manuscrit éthiopien" [Tentawi yä-branna mäsahft azägäjajät], de Fäqadä Sellasé Täfära (2010), Addis Abeba University Press.
Full text http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/48/59/73/PDF/wion_postface_2010_branna.pdf
Date 2010
Author(s) Wion, Anaïs
Abstract This book is a complete study of the material and cultural aspects of manuscripts making in Christian Ethiopia. Palaeography, making of parchment, preparation of inks, preparation of quires, binding, preparation of the writing surface, writing and copying, meaning of notes and decorations, illuminations... all information necessary for a real codicology of Ethiopian manuscripts is detailed for the first time, with its Amharic and Ge'ez terminology. Thanks to the professional experience of the author, who has been travelling all over Ethiopia, synchronicity and regionalism have been taken into account. This study is based on a very vast corpus of manuscripts. The author also deals with cultural and social aspects as the education of scribes, their daily work, and finally gives some short biographies of famous scribes. The book in Amharic is published together with a short English postface by Anaïs Wion (CNRS). It presents the author, the history of this book initiated by the great historian Tadesse Tamrat, the state of the art in the study of Ethiopian manuscripts and, of course, the need for the publication of the present study. A set of photos of the tools of scribe and parchments makers has been shot and will be inserted all through the book.
Subject(s) [SHS:HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History; [SHS:MUSEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology
Language English
Type of publication other publication
Identifier HAL: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00485973/en/
Repository France - Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL)
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