✖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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id title type
LIT5407BigFeastsTig Quṣǝr baʿālāt za-ʿābiy wa-za-nǝʾus work
LIT5913Abugida ʾAbugidā Syllabarium work
BNFet156 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 156 mss
LIT6461Distances On the distances from Jerusalem work
BNFet8 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 8 mss
BNFet140 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 140 mss
BNFet117 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 117 mss
BNFet154 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 154 mss
fiaccadori2007 Māʾkalāy Tǝgrāy, ʾAksum Ṣǝyon, Fiaccadori 2007 mss
ESdd046 Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi, DD-046 mss
BNFet155 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 155 mss
IHA0211 Chicago, Weiner, WEINER00066 mss
BLadd16240 London, British Library, BL Additional 16240 mss
IHA0068 Addis Ababa, IES - Institute of Ethiopian Studies, IES04575 mss
ESdd031 Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi, DD-031 mss
RIE239 No Institution record, No Institution record, RIÉ 239 mss
BLadd19343 London, British Library, BL Additional 19343 mss
IHA1545 Jimma / Ǧimmā, Jimma Museum, JMU00015 mss
MMU001 Hamburg, Private collection of Dr Matthias Müth, MMU-001 mss
BNFet152 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 152 mss
BLadd19342 London, British Library, BL Additional 19342 mss
RNBefns11 Saint Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacionalnaja Biblioteka, RNB Ef. n.s. 11 mss
BNFet112 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 112 mss
BNFet153 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 153 mss
BNFabb39 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 39 mss
BNFet109 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 109 mss
BNFet162 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 162 mss
BNFet163 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 163 mss
ESdd036 Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi, DD-036 mss
IHA0198 Chicago, Weiner, WEINER00053 mss
RIE180 Addis Ababa, National Museum of Ethiopia, RIÉ 180 mss
DSEthiop7 Egypt, Dayr as-Suryān, DS Ethiop. 7 mss
DSEthiop2 Egypt, Dayr as-Suryān, DS Ethiop. 2 mss
ESmkl024 Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy, Laqāy Kidāna Mǝḥrat, MKL-024 mss
BNFet164 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 164 mss
DSEthiop3 Egypt, Dayr as-Suryān, DS Ethiop. 3 mss
BNFet158 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 158 mss
BNFet159 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 159 mss
BNFet5 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 5 mss
BLadd19337 London, British Library, BL Additional 19337 mss
DSEthiop23 Egypt, Dayr as-Suryān, DS Ethiop. 23 mss
BNFet99 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 99 mss
BDLaeth34 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Aeth. 34 mss
ESamq020 ʿAddigrat, ʿĀddigrāt Dabra Mankǝrāt Qǝddus Qirqos, AMQ-020 mss
LIT6116Biblio Bibliography of Ethiopia by H.E. Ato Ketema Yifru, work
BNFet98 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 98 mss
RIE275 ʾAsmarā, National Museum of Eritrea, RIÉ 275 mss
LIT6460Letters On Various Significations of Letters work
LIT6136Fidel ያማርኛ፡ ፊደል፡ work
LIT6122Gurage The Gurage; A People of the Ensete Culture work
LIT6011FeastsList Register of the Church feasts for the entire year work
BLorient829fragments London, British Library, BL Oriental 829* mss
BLorient751 London, British Library, BL Oriental 751 mss
BLorient753 London, British Library, BL Oriental 753 mss
LIT5914Hahu Hāhu Syllabarium work
LIT5141Form Form of a Letter to the Emperor Mǝnilǝk work
LIT1199Barala Baralām wa-Yǝwāsǝf work
LIT1557Apocal Rāʾǝya Gorgoryos work
LIT4684Labours List of the compulsory labours for the construction of ʾAksum Ṣǝyon work
LIT4679Rest Rǝst za-ʾAmbā za-ʾƎsrāʾel work
LIT4984ListNebur List of 12 nǝbura ʾǝd consectrated by Philipp work
LIT4983ListDabra List of the abbots of Dabra Libānos work
LIT4508MashafaT Maṣḥafa ṭǝnbaho / ṭǝbbaho work
LIT4992HassabSabela Computus of Sybil work
LIT4980alphabet Interpretation of Jewish alphabet work
LIT4128Letter Letter from ʾIyāsu I to Clement XI work
LIT4688Taxes Taxes for the Žān Ṣǝge work
LIT4099MashafaT Maṣḥafa tǝrgʷāme fidal work
LIT4982ListCan List of canonical books work
LIT4972Inv Inventory list of the objects donated by Lǝbna Dǝngǝl work
LIT4978Comp Comparison of different countries with the regions of Ethiopia work
LIT4127Letter Letter from ʾIyāsu I to Leronǝs work
LIT4993Lang On the languages of sons of Noah work
LIT4001Syllab Syllabary of the Ethiopic alphabet work
LIT4685Rule Rule for the protection of ʾAksum Ṣǝyon work
LIT4991Months Names of the months in Ethiopic, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Coptic work
LIT2635Dawana Ḍawana nafs work
LIT2045Nagara LIT2045Nagara was permanently deleted work
LIT2293Sawase Sawāsǝw (general record) work
LIT2170Peripl Periplus of the Erythraean Sea work
LIT2616Zenaes Zenā ʾƎskǝndǝr work
LIT3121IHA منظومة في بيان صفة منازل القمر work
LIT3133IHA رسالة في المكاتبة work
LIT3580IHA قذافي والمتقولون عليه work
LIT1503IHA فتح مدينة هرر work
LIT3984IHA منتخب الكلام في تفسير الاحلام work
LIT3461IHA مواسم والمراسم work
LIT3386IHA نصوص للمرحلة الاعدادية work
LIT3164IHA ديوان مؤن البيت والرؤيا work
LIT0556IHA هداية المستفيد في أحكام التجويد لتلامذة مدرسة التهذيب work
LIT3081IHA كف الرعاع عن محرمات اللهو والسماع work
LIT3236IHA مختصر ارشاد الحيارى في تحذير المسلمين من مدارس النصارى work
LIT4320IHA ثقافة الاسلامية في الحبشة work
LIT0527IHA تائية work
LIT2984IHA تعبير الرؤيا work
LIT0041IHA رفع شأن اﺍلحبشاﻥ work
LIT3154IHA بروج work
LIT0562IHA مختصر الفتح الرحمان بشرح منظومة الشيباني work
LIT3202IHA دليل الحاج والمعتمر work
LIT0263IHA لؤلؤ النظيم في روم التعلم والتعليم work
LIT3771IHA حظيرة في نظم مهمّ السيرة work
LIT4055IHA مثال الوراقين ودستور النساخين work
LIT0042IHA ازهار العروش في اخبار الحبوش work
LIT1516IHA إرشاد البرية المنتسب بطريقة الرشادية work
LIT2016IHA ربط الولد بالمرشد work
LIT3080IHA سبيل النجاة عن بدعة اهل الزيغ والضلالة work
LIT4096IHA كتاب ابو معشر البلخي work
LIT2645IHA تربية الاولاد في الاسلام work
LIT3082IHA اعلام بقواطع الاسلام work
LIT3348IHA كتاب الإنشاء work
LIT1261IHA رسالة في تفسير الرؤيا work
LIT3827IHA حاضر العالم الاسلامي work
EMIP03371 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 153 mss
EMIP03375 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 157 mss
EMIP03385 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 167 mss
EMIP03386 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 168 mss
EMIP03387 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 169 mss
EMIP03388 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 170 mss
EMIP03389 ʾAddis ʾAbabā, Capuchin Center for Research and Retreat, Capuchin Franciscan Research and Retreat Centre 171 mss
BNFabb161 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 161 mss
DMGYi135IIIB1 Halle (Saale), Bibliothek der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft, DMG Yi 135 III B (1) mss