✖Here you can explore some general information about the project. See also Beta maṣāḥəft institutional web page. Select About to meet the project team and our partners. Visit the Guidelines section to learn about our encoding principles. The section Data contains the Linked Open Data information, and API the Application Programming Interface documentation for those who want to exchange data with the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. The Permalinks section documents the versioning and referencing earlier versions of each record.
Click to get back to the home page. Here you can find out more about the project team, the cooperating projects, and the contact information. You can also visit our institutional page. Find out more about our Encoding Guidelines. In this section our Linked Open Data principles are explained. Developers can find our Application Programming Interface documentation here. The page documents the use of permalinks by the project.
✖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).
Shelf marks (full list)Manuscripts (search)List of Digitized ManuscriptsCatalogues EncodedInscriptions
✖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 UnitsStudies
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.
✖While encoding manuscripts, the project Beta maṣāḥǝft aims at creating an exhaustive repertory of art themes and techniques present in Ethiopian and Eritrean Christian tradition. See our encoding guidelines for details. Two types of searches for aspects of manuscript decoration are possible, the decorations filtered search and the general keyword search.
Index of decorationsArt KeywordsIlluminations
The filtered search for decorations, originally designed with Jacopo Gnisci, looks at decorations and their features only. The filters on the left are relative only to the selected features, reading the legends will help you to figure out what you can filter. For example you can search for all encoded decorations of a specific art theme, or search the encoded legends. If the decorations are present, but not encoded, you will not get them in the results. If an image is available, you will also find a thumbnail linking to the image viewer. [NB: The Index of Decorations currently often times out, we are sorry for the inconvenience.] You can search for particular motifs or aspects, including style, also through the keyword search. Just click on "Art keywords" and "Art themes" on the left to browse through the options. This is a short cut to a search for all those manuscripts which have miniatures of which we have images.
✖We create metadata for all places associated with the manuscript production and circulation as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The encoding of places in Beta maṣāḥǝft will thus result in a Gazetteer of the Ethiopian tradition. We follow the principles established by Pleiades and lined out in the Syriaca.org TEI Manual and Schema for Historical Geography which allow us to distinguish between places, locations, and names of places. See also Help page fore more guidance.
PlacesRepositories
This tab offers a filtrable list of all available places. Geographical references of the type "land inhabited by people XXX" is encoded with the reference to the corresponding Ethnic unit (see below); ethnonyms, even those used in geographical contexts, do not appear in this list. Repositories are those locations where manuscripts encoded by the project are or used to be preserved. While they are encoded in the same way as all places are, the view offered is different, showing a list of manuscripts associated with the repository.
✖We create metadata for all persons (and groups of persons) associated with the manuscript production and circulation (rulers, religious authorities, scribes, donors, and commissioners) as well as those mentioned in the texts used by the project. The result will be a comprehensive Prosopography of the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition. See also Help page for more guidance.
Persons and groupsEthnic units
We encode persons according to our Encoding Guidelines. The initial list was inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix. We consider ethnonyms as a subcategory of personal names, even when many are often used in literary works in the context of the "land inhabited by **". The present list of records has been mostly inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and there are still many inconsistencies that we are trying to gradually fix.
✖This section collects some additional resources offered by the project. Select Bibliography to explore the references cited in the project records. The Indexes list different types of project records (persons, places, titles, keywords, etc). Visit Projects for information on partners that have input data directly in the Beta maṣāḥǝft database. Special ways of exploring the data are offered under Visualizations. Two applications were developed in cooperation with the project TraCES, the Gǝʿǝz Morphological Parser and the Online Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae.
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David Playing the Harp

There are 89 resources that contain the exact keyword: AT1066DavidHarp
id title type
EMIP00211 Williams, OR, Marwick Collection, Marwick Codex 49 mss
EMIP02199 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 245 mss
EMIP00073 Eugene, Museum of Natural and Cultural History of the University of Oregon, 10-844 mss
EMIP00245 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 35 mss
EMIP02337 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 305 mss
BLorient537 London, British Library, BL Oriental 537 mss
EMIP00055 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Trinity Western University Codex 1 mss
EMIP02350 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 318 mss
EMIP00246 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 36 mss
EMIP03267 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Antippas 17 mss
BLadd24184 London, British Library, BL Additional 24184 mss
EMIP00096 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 12 mss
EMIP02347 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 315 mss
EMIP00070 Williams, OR, Marwick Collection, Marwick Codex 22 mss
EMIP00047 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 22 mss
EMIP00081 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 40 (Weiner Codex 154) mss
EMIP00235 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 76 mss
EMIP02373 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 338 mss
CJN003 Hamburg, Private collection, CJN-003 mss
EMIP00173 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 22 mss
EMIP00044 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 19 mss
TFR005 Hude, TFR private collection, TFR-005 mss
EMIP00467 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Mahibere Kiddusan 1 mss
EMIP00094 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 10 mss
EMIP00207 Williams, OR, Marwick Collection, Marwick Codex 45 mss
EMIP00396 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 47 mss
EMIP01998 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 049 mss
EMIP00040 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 15 mss
EMIP00107 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 2 mss
EMIP00106 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 1 mss
EMIP00112 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 21 mss
EMIP00241 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 31 mss
EMIP00387 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Young Codex 1 mss
EMIP02376 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 341 mss
EMIP00255 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 45 mss
EMIP00393 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 161 mss
EMIP00143 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 38 mss
EMIP02371 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 336 mss
EMIP00088 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 5 mss
EMIP00287 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 110 mss
EMIP00336 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 146 mss
EMIP02002 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 053 mss
EMIP00110 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 5 mss
EMIP00310 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 126 mss
EMIP02003 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 054 mss
EMIP02379 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 344 mss
EMIP00406 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Kaleab Addis Project 6 mss
EMIP01974 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 025 mss
EMIP02174 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Simon Neal Codex mss
EMIP00412 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Kaleab Addis Project 12 mss
EMIP00309 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 125 mss
EMIP00061 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 31 mss
EMIP00150 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 45 mss
EMIP00049 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 24 mss
EMIP03261 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Antippas 11 mss
EMIP00176 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 25 mss
EMIP00700 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, 46 mss
FSUor133 Frankfurt, Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt Ms. or. 133 mss
EMIP00217 Williams, OR, Marwick Collection, Marwick Codex 55 mss
EMIP00108 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 3 mss
EMIP00109 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 4 mss
EMIP00147 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 42 mss
EMIP01990 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 041 mss
EMIP00377 Alabama, Rudulph Collection, Rudulph Codex 10 mss
EMIP00177 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 26 mss
EMIP00307 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 123 mss
EMIP01994 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 045 mss
EMIP00010 Williams, OR, Marwick Collection, Marwick Codex 6 mss
EMIP00089 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 6 mss
EMIP01999 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 050 mss
EMIP01926 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, 93 mss
EMIP02349 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 317 mss
EMIP00062 Denver, CO, Eliza Bennett Collection, Eliza Codex 32 mss
EMIP02354 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner Codex 322 mss
EMIP03248 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Weiner 475 mss
EMIP03274 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Antippas 24 mss
EMIP00071 Eugene, Museum of Natural and Cultural History of the University of Oregon, 10-845 mss
BNFabb105 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 105 mss
EMIP01985 Washington, D.C., Howard University School of Divinity, Tweed Codex 036 mss
EMIP00248 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 38 mss
EMIP00486 Portland, Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Kaleab Addis Project 60 mss
EMIP00124 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 10 mss
AT1066DavidHarp David Playing the Harp auth
EMIP00174 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 23 mss
EMIP00243 Belmont, MA, Alwan Collection, Alwan Codex 33 mss
BLorient8821 London, British Library, BL Oriental 8821 mss
MEAG001 Ethiopia, Private Collection of Məntasnot ʾAbbuhay, MEAG-001 mss
YaleMs1 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Ethiopic 1 mss
YaleMs17 mss