A "Study Manuscript" from Qäqäma (Tǝgray, Ethiopia): Attempts at Ink and Parchment Analysis

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One of the few items of Qäqäma (Ethiopia) collection which predate the time of Gäbrä Giyorgis is a manuscript (QDGM-010) containing New Testament books: the Acts of the Apostles and all Apostolic Epistles. Manuscripts of this type are not common in small rural libraries of North Ethiopia which in most of the cases possess only lectionaries with selections of New Testament readings. The article showcases the results of material analysis, demonstrating that MS QDGM-010 might have been produced and used as “study manuscript” in a different area, and found its way to the collection of Qäqäma, under still unknown circumstances, at some point in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.593
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.592
Metadata Access https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:593
Provenance
Creator Nosnitsin, Denis; Kindzorra, Emanuel; Hahn, Oliver; Rabin, Ira
Publisher Universität Hamburg
Publication Year 2014
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Journal article; Text
Discipline Other