✖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).
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✖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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Commentary

There are 205 resources that contain the exact keyword: Commentary
id title type
LIT5957CommAnJacob Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Jacob of Serugh work
LIT5971CommHomilies Amharic Commentary on Homilies of the Fathers work
LIT5967CommResurrection Amharic Commentary on the Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead work
LIT5973CommTestIncarn Amharic Commentary on the Testimony of the Fathers on the Incarnation work
LIT3532Tergw Tǝrgʷāme za-kufāle work
LIT6000CommCorinthians1 Amharic Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians work
LIT5629AndemtaCreed Amharic Commentary on the Nicene Creed work
LIT5933CommMuallaqa Amharic Commentary on the Introductory Rite to the Miracles of Mary work
LIT5969CommChrysostom Amharic Commentary by John Chrysostom on Matthew's note about Mary work
LIT5949CommAnMary Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Mary work
LIT6001CommCorinthians2 Amharic Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians work
BLorient735 London, British Library, BL Oriental 735 mss
BLorient734 London, British Library, BL Oriental 734 mss
BNFabb147 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 147 mss
BNFet150 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 150 mss
LIT6009CommGalatians Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians work
BNFabb39 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 39 mss
BLorient736 London, British Library, BL Oriental 736 mss
BLadd16248 London, British Library, BL Additional 16248 mss
BLorient737 London, British Library, BL Oriental 737 mss
BNFet160 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 160 mss
LIT6367PsalmsAmhComm Amharic Commentary on Psalms work
BNFet65 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 65 mss
LIT6156OriginProphets On the chronology and the countries of origin of the Prophets work
LIT6007CommPhilippians Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Philippians work
BDLbruce81 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Bruce 81 mss
ESdd049 Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi, DD-049 mss
BLadd16197 London, British Library, BL Additional 16197 mss
BNFet64 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 64 mss
BNFabb20 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 20 mss
BDLaethd6 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Aeth. d. 6 mss
BNFet66 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 66 mss
BLorient530 London, British Library, BL Oriental 530 mss
BLorient732 London, British Library, BL Oriental 732 mss
IVEf28 Saint Petersburg, Institut Vostočnyh Rukopisej Rossijskoj Akademii Nauk, IV Ef. 28 mss
BNFet118 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 118 mss
BLadd16220 London, British Library, BL Additional 16220 mss
LIT6462TractOnPsalm Tract on the text of Ps. 90.4 work
LIT6004CommEphesians Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians work
LIT3848Tergwame Tǝrgʷāme qālāt za-bārakomu Muse la-daqiqa ʾƎsrāʾel work
LIT3192Tergwam Tǝrgʷāme Luqās work
LIT3849Tergwame Tǝrgʷāme qālāt za-kama bārakomu Yāʿqob la-daqiqu work
LIT3193Tergwam Tǝrgʷāme Yoḥannǝs work
LIT6006CommThess2 Amharic Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians work
LIT6003CommTimothy2 Amharic Commentary on the Second Epistle to Timothy work
LIT6130CommPhilox ፈልክስዩስ ገብረ፡ ክርስቶስ፡ work
LIT6008CommPhilemon Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to Philemon work
LIT3183Commen Tǝrgʷāme daqiqa nabiyāt work
LIT3190Tergwam Tǝrgʷāme Mātewos work
LIT3182Commen Tǝrgʷāme Dāwit work
LIT3181Commen Tǝrgʷāme Ṗāwlos work
LIT3171Commen Tǝrgʷāme malʾǝkt za-bǝṣuʿ wa-kǝbur Ṗāwlos za-ṣaḥafa la-ʿƎbrāwǝyān work
LIT6005CommThess1 Amharic Commentary on the First Epistle to the Thessalonians work
LIT6368PsaltComm Amharic Commentary on the Psalter work
LIT6002CommTimothy1 Amharic Commentary on the First Epistle to Timothy work
LIT6010CommRomans Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans work
LIT3191Tergwam Tǝrgʷāme Mārqos work
LIT5948CommAnJohn Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of John, Son of Thunder work
LIT5972CommTestimony Amharic Commentary on the Testimony of the Fathers work
LIT5628CommCreed Commentary on the Nicene Creed work
LIT5985CommPsalms Amharic Commentary on Psalms work
LIT5956CommAnCyril Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Cyril work
LIT5974CommFethaN Amharic Commentary on the Fǝtḥa nagaśt work
LIT5810ExplanationHebrewNames Ethiopic explanation of several Hebrew names work
LIT5981CommGospels Amharic Commentary on the Four Gospels work
LIT5966CommCommunion Amharic Commentary on the Mystery of Holy Communion work
LIT5950CommAn318 Amharic Commentary on the of the 318 Orthodox Fathers work
LIT5625TergSenaFet Tǝrgʷāme śǝna fǝṭrat work
LIT5968CommPaul Amharic Commentary on the Epistles of Paul work
BLorient731 London, British Library, BL Oriental 731 mss
BLorient526 London, British Library, BL Oriental 526 mss
BLorient527 London, British Library, BL Oriental 527 mss
BLorient739 London, British Library, BL Oriental 739 mss
BLorient738 London, British Library, BL Oriental 738 mss
BLorient503 London, British Library, BL Oriental 503 mss
BLorient529 London, British Library, BL Oriental 529 mss
BLorient528 London, British Library, BL Oriental 528 mss
BLorient740 London, British Library, BL Oriental 740 mss
BLorient792 London, British Library, BL Oriental 792 mss
BLorient751 London, British Library, BL Oriental 751 mss
BLorient753 London, British Library, BL Oriental 753 mss
BLorient743 London, British Library, BL Oriental 743 mss
BLorient741 London, British Library, BL Oriental 741 mss
BLorient742 London, British Library, BL Oriental 742 mss
LIT5980CommDavid Amharic Commentary on the Story of David work
LIT5958CommAnDioscorus Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Dioscorus work
LIT5938CommAmmestu Amharic Commentary on the Pillars of Mystery work
LIT5945CommMass Amharic Commentary on the Ordinary of the Mass work
LIT5964CommIncarnation Commentary on the Mystery of the Incarnation work
LIT5951CommAnAthanasius Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Athanasius work
LIT5799TergwHezq Tǝrgʷāme maṣḥaf za-Ḥǝzqǝʾel work
LIT5977CommComputus Amharic Commentary on the Computus work
LIT5955CommAnChrysostom Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of John Chrysostom work
LIT5963CommTrinity Amharic Commentary on the Mystery of the Trinity work
LIT5952CommAnBasil Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Basil work
LIT5935CommHail Amharic Commentary on the Hail Mary work
LIT5942CommSuppl Amharic Commentary on the Supplications work
LIT5988CommIsaiah Amharic Commentary on Isaiah work
LIT5997CommTitus Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to Titus work
LIT5937CommCommandments Amharic Commentary on the Ten Commandments work
LIT5979CommAragawi Amharic Commentary on the Words of ʾAragāwi work
LIT5940CommMoses Amharic Commentary on the Farewell Speech of Moses work
LIT5934CommOurFather Amharic Commentary on the Our Father work
LIT5936CommWeddaseM Amharic Commentary on the Praises of Mary work
LIT5983CommEnoch Amharic Commentary on Enoch work
LIT5954CommAnEpiphanius Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Epiphanius work
LIT5975CommEzekiel Amharic Commentary on Ezekiel work
LIT5953CommAnGregory Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Gregory, brother of Basil work
LIT5986CommPsalter Amharic Commentary on the Psalter work
LIT5978CommQerellos Amharic Commentary on Qerǝllos work
LIT5984CommDaniel Amharic Commentary on Daniel work
LIT5965CommBapt Amharic Commentary on the Mystery of Baptism (General record) work
LIT5982CommOrit Amharic Commentary on the ʾOrit/Octateuch work
LIT5998CommHebrews Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews work
LIT5976CommInstructions Amharic Commentary on Instructions and Explanations to the Chanters work
LIT5941CommKidan Amharic Commentary on the Prayer of the Covenant work
LIT5999CommColossians Amharic Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians work
LIT5990CommCritique Sǝla ʾortodoks beta krǝstiyān ʾandānd śǝrʿātočč ya-qarraba nagara malakotāwi tǝččǝt work
LIT5970CommDidascalia Amharic Commentary on the Didascalia work
LIT5947CommAnLord Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Our Lord work
LIT5959CommAnThaumaturgus Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of Gregory the Wonder Worker work
LIT5987CommRevelation Amharic Commentary on the Book of Revelation work
LIT5943CommLiton Amharic Commentary on the litanical Prayer work
LIT5989CommPrayer Amharic Commentary on the Daily Prayer work
LIT5946CommAnAp Amharic Commentary on the Anaphora of the Apostles work
LIT1976Mashaf Maṣḥafa ṭǝnta hāymānot work
LIT1046Aksima ʾAksimāros work
LIT1234Catena Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew work
LIT1811Liveso Lives of the Prophets and the Tribes of their Origin work
LIT4627Introduction Introduction to the Pauline Epistles work
LIT4913IntroductionCath Introduction to the Catholic Epistles work
LIT4914Stones Tǝrgʷāme ʾaʿnāqʷ work
LIT4591TergwameM Tǝrgʷāme miṭata bǝrhānāta samāy work
LIT4590CommentaryJob Ya-ʾIyob tārik work
LIT4664Introduction Maqdǝma Ṗawlos ḥawāryā work
LIT4117Interpretation Interpretation and Symbolic Commentary on Genesis and Exodus work
LIT2332serata Śǝrʿāta beta krǝstiyān work
BNFabb160 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 160 mss
HNK007 Addis Ababa, Ḥamara Noḫ Kidāna Mǝḥrat, HNK-007 mss
GotD781 Schleswig, Archaeological Museum Schloss Gottorf, D 781 mss
MSL012 Addis Ababa, Māḫǝdara Sǝbḥāt lǝdatā la-Māryām, MSL-012 mss
MSL013 Addis Ababa, Māḫǝdara Sǝbḥāt lǝdatā la-Māryām, MSL-013 mss
MSL015 Addis Ababa, Māḫǝdara Sǝbḥāt lǝdatā la-Māryām, MSL-015 mss
DNY006 Goǧǧām, Dabra Nagʷadgʷād qǝddus Yoḥānnǝs, DNY-006 mss
MDA001 Addet, Private collection of Mamhǝr Dǝggu, EAP336/2/1 mss
BNFabb28 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 28 mss
NLA32 Addis Ababa, Ethiopian National Archives and Library Agency, NALE 32 mss
NLA33 mss
NLA35 mss
BNFabb156 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 156 mss
MHAA001 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Mamhǝr Haymanot private collection, MHAA-001 mss
MHAA002 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Mamhǝr Haymanot private collection, MHAA-002 mss
MHAA003 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Mamhǝr Haymanot private collection, MHAA-003 mss
MHAA004 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Mamhǝr Haymanot private collection, MHAA-004 mss
BNFabb157 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 157 mss
LIT6843Commentary Commentary on Old Testament books work
C4IV123 no repository data for C4IV123 mss
BNFabb233 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 233 mss
BNFabb190 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 190 mss
LIT6912CommentaryEnoch Amharic commentary on the Book of Enoch by mamhǝr Getāhun work
LIT6920CommentJubileesWasan Amharic commentary on Jubilees by Wasan of Goǧǧām work
BNFabb154 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 154 mss
BNFabb191 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 191 mss
BNFabb166 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 166 mss
BNFabb24 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 24 mss
EMDA91 Moṭa, Moṭā Giyorgis, G1-IV-216 mss
LIT6945CommentHebrewWRuf Explications by Walda Rufāel of Goǧǧām in Amharic on the Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews by John Chrysostom work
EMDA66 Marṭula Māryām, Marṭula Māryām, G1-IV-154 mss
EMDA64 Marṭula Māryām, Marṭula Māryām, G1-IV-7 mss
EMDA67 Marṭula Māryām, Marṭula Māryām, EMDA 67 mss
EMDA70 Marṭula Māryām, Marṭula Māryām, EMDA 70 mss
EMDA58 Marṭula Māryām, Marṭula Māryām, G1-IV-134 mss
EMDA157 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-298 mss
EMDA150 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-276 mss
EMDA151 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-277 mss
G1IV338 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-338 mss
BNFabb145 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 145 mss
EMDA158 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-294 mss
EMDA159 Dabra Mārqos, Qarānǝyo Madḫāne ʿĀlam, G1-IV-319 mss
UNESCO619 mss
UNESCO626 Dabra Mārqos, , UNESCO 6-26 mss
UNESCO642 mss
UNESCO645 mss
UNESCO647 mss
LIT7023CommKidanTemHeb Amharic commentary-introduction to the Kidān za-nagh and Tǝmhǝrta ḫǝbuʾāt work
LIT7024CommKidanZaNagh Amharic commentary on the Kidān za-nagh work
LIT7025CommTemHeb Amharic commentary on the Tǝmhǝrta ḫǝbuʾāt work
LIT5944CommMystatgogia Commentary on Mystagogia work
LIT7032Trinity Amharic treatise on the Trinity work
LIT6608Commentary Commentary on the Pentateuch by Mǝhǝrka Dǝngǝl work
LIT6675CommSong Commentary on the Song of Song work
LIT6676CommDaniel Commentary on Daniel (General record) work
LIT6817CommentJoshua ፍካሬ፡ መጽሐፈ፡ ኢያሱ፡ ወልደ፡ ነዌ፡ work
LIT6832CommentaryApocalypseJohn Commentary on the Apocalypse of John work
LIT6838MeasuresWeightHebrew Explanations of Hebrew weight measurements work
LIT6839CommentaryIsaiah Commentary on Isaiah work
LIT6825NamesProphets About the names of the Prophets and countries of their origin work
LIT6834CommentarFirstChronicles Commentary on 1 Chronicles work
LIT6835CommentarSecondChronicles Commentary on 2 Chronicles work
LIT6836CommChronicles Commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles work
LIT6837CommentaryKings Commentary on the Books of Kings work
LIT7050SerataKrestiyan Śǝrʾāta krǝstiyān work
LIT7051AmhCommChr Amharic Commentary on Chronography work
BLorient5085 London, British Library, BL Oriental 5085 mss
LIT6498Astawadeo ʾAstawāḍǝʾo tǝrgum work