Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea

✖Descriptions of (predominantly) Christian manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea are the core of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. We (1) gradually encode descriptions from printed catalogues, beginning from the historical ones, (2) incorporate digital descriptions produced by other projects, adjusting them wherever possible, and (3) produce descriptions of previously unknown and/or uncatalogued manuscripts. The encoding follows the TEI XML standards (check our guidelines).

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Here you can browse a full list of manuscripts available on the platform, arranged by repositories and shelf marks (clicking on the "show list" button will expand the list for each location). This menu takes you to the search form listing all manuscripts encoded by the project. On the left side you get filters based on the indexes for that type of resources in the database, on the right side you will see your search results in a multi-page table (20 per page). You can refine the results by applying the filters. Here you can view a list of manuscripts that have digitized images available online elsewhere. The list of manuscript catalogues that were used as sources for our records. Clicking on one of the titles will open a list view with all the manuscripts in that catalogue that have been encoded. Inscriptions are an inseparable part of the manuscript tradition and its direct precursors, therefore we also offer the encoding of the known inscriptions from Ethiopia and Eritrea wherever possible. Part of the encoding is carried out in Hamburg, part is the result of cooperation with other projects, such as DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic Arabian Inscriptions.

✖We identify each unit of content in every manuscript. We consider any text with an independent circulation a work, with its own identification number within the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). Parts of texts (e.g. chapters) without independent circulation (univocally identifiable by IDs assigned within the records) or recurrent motifs as well as documentary additional texts (identified as Narrative Units) are not part of the CAe. You can also check the list of different types of text titles or various Indexes available from the top menu.

Clavis Aethiopica (Works)Narrative Units Studies

The clavis is a repertory of all known works relevant for the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition; the work being defined as any text with an independent circulation. Each work (as well as known recensions where applicable) receives a unique identifier in the Clavis Aethiopica (CAe). In the filter search offered here one can search for a work by its title, a keyword, a short quotation, but also directly by its CAe identifier - or, wherever known and provided, identifier used by other claves, including Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (BHG), Clavis Patrum Graecorum (CPG), Clavis Coptica (CC), Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti (CAVT), Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti (CANT), etc. The project additionally identifies Narrative Units to refer to text types, where no clavis identification is possible or necessary. Recurring motifs or also frequently documentary additiones are assigned a Narrative Unit ID, or thematically clearly demarkated passages from various recensions of a larger work. This list view shows the documentary collections encoded by the project Ethiopian Manuscript Archives (EMA) and its successor EthioChrisProcess - Christianization and religious interactions in Ethiopia (6th-13th century) : comparative approaches with Nubia and Egypt, which aim to edit the corpus of administrative acts of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, for medieval and modern periods. See also the list of documents contained in the additiones in the manuscripts described by the Beta maṣāḥǝft project . Works of interest to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies.

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Žammadu Māryām has been marked up 46 times in the selected collections.

in Dabra Zamaddo's Walatta Nǝgǝst whom the Blessed Virgin saved from a raid by the Arami. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church and the tree that wrecked havoc on it as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's man who refused to observe holy days. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's icon sǝʿǝla Adhǝno is exiled to Ruha (Lalibela?) in Ethiopia as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Bartalomewos and how a fountain of honey milk sprang up under his feet as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Lady Mahdara Maryam and how the Virgin Mary claimed her house as a church as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Lady Mahdara Maryam commits suicide by hunger strike when her son steals the food for the Virgin Mary's feast as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in King Zara Yaqob (Zarʾa Yaʿeqob), the 15th c. Ethiopian monarch, and how the Virgin Mary rebuked him for leaning against the wall of Dabra Zamaddo as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Bartalomewos as
1. Žammadu Māryām
in Dabra Zamaddo's icon sǝʿǝla Adhǝno is recovered. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's “Keep yourself from minor things, lest you fall from big things”. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in King Lalibala, the 13th c. Ethiopian monarch, and his godson at Dabra Zamaddo as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's monastery and how the people there detained the monastery’s cow as recompense. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's righteous monk who was afflicted by bugs. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's thief who stole and sold the lectern from the church. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's storm that engulfed the country with total darkness for four months. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's three monks who thought of leaving the monastery but survive for months on the spring of honey milk as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Yohannǝs and how he opposed the oppressive ruler of Danagaz as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's woman who received the answer to her prayer through her support stick. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church and how chewing the body of the Son of the Blessed Virgin is not welcome to the Virgin Mary as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Yohannǝs persuades a husband to give up his second wife and be reconciled to his first as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's church and taking a grotto from a poor widow in order to build it in honor of the Virgin Mary as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Qwǝrbana Dǝngǝl afflicted by the consequences of aging. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's greedy man who did not observe holy days. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's monks on the verge of abandoning the monastery. (duplicate?) as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church and the three huge boulders that ripped off the cliff and destroyed the roof and walls of the church kitchen as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's three monks who starved in the cell that once belonged to the Holy Family. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Qwǝrbana Dǝngǝl encounters a leopard as a child. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Mahdara Krǝstos who left his office on his own volition. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's people evade the forces of Imam Ahmad Gran as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna tsama Iyyasus averts a raid by the Oromo people with prayers to the Virgin Mary as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's three adulterous priests who are revealed and defrocked as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's righteous Walda hawaryat whom the Blessed Virgin comforted. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Qwǝrbana Dǝngǝl is saved as a child from an attack by the Arami. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church and the punishment for cutting trees from the church’s precinct. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Mabaʾa tsǝyon church and the density of trees there that prevented two boys from dying in a fire as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Yohannǝs is revealed to be a saint as a mere child as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church and the complaint of the icon for falling on the ground as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Yohannǝs and how the monks revolted against him as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's church's dangerous cliff side entrance is improved by the abbot and the Virgin Mary as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in King Naʾakkwǝto Laʾab, the 13th c. Ethiopian monarch, and how the Virgin Mary informs him about his future at Dabra Zamaddo as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Sinodos whom people opposed to cut the hab tree. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's righteous Walda hawaryat and the glory of Mahlet. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Miracle of Mary: Dabra Zamaddo's Abbot Abuna Yohannǝs is transported to Jerusalem as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's leopard that dug out tombs and ate the corpses. as
1. Dabra Zamaddo
in Dabra Zamaddo's icon sǝʿǝla Adhǝno is stolen and returned as
1. Dabra Zamaddo