✖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.
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✖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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF Éthiopien 160 (1600-1600)
  • ms_i1 (complete), Treatises on computus and chronology (ff. 10r-)
  • ms_i1.1 (complete), On the 532 year cycle (ff. 10r-)
  • ms_i1.2 (complete), On the computus of the epacts (f. 10v)
  • ms_i1.3 (complete), On years, months and seasons (ff. 10v-)
  • ms_i1.4 (complete), On the epagomenous days and leap years (f. 12r)
  • ms_i1.5 (complete), On the epacts and the golden ratio (ff. 12r-)
  • ms_i1.6 (complete), Number of days, hours and fifths of hours from the Creation to the Apocalypse (ff. 13r-)
  • ms_i1.7 (complete), Computus of fast and feast days (ff. 14r-)
  • ms_i1.8 (complete), On the epochs of St John, the jubilees, the sabbath of Enoch and of Sybil (ff. 15v-)
  • ms_i1.9 (complete), Chronology of Jewish history (f. 16r)
  • ms_i1.10 (complete), Chronology of the kings of Ethiopia from ʾAbrǝhā and ʾAṣbaḥa to Galāwdewos (ff. 16r-)
  • ms_i1.11 (complete), Dates of the life of Jesus Christ (ff. 16v-)
  • ms_i1.12 (complete), How to determine the year of the long and short cycle (ff. 17r-)
  • ms_i1.13 (complete), On the days on which the epacts fall in the four evangelists' years (ff. 19v-)
  • ms_i1.14 (complete), On errors of the Ethiopian computus (ff. 20v-)
  • ms_i1.15 (complete), On the calculus of indictions (ff. 21r-)
  • ms_i1.16 (complete), On the epagomenous days (f. 22r)
  • ms_i1.17 (complete), On the beginning of the solar computus (the fourth day of Creation) (ff. 22r-)
  • ms_i1.18 (complete), On the beginning of the computus of the creation of Heaven and Earth (f. 22v)
  • ms_i1.19 (complete), The epacts of the moon since Adam (ff. 22v-)
  • ms_i1.20 (complete), The first and last days of the seven millennia (ff. 23v-)
  • ms_i1.21 (complete), On the ten sabbaths of 700 years (f. 24r)
  • ms_i1.22 (complete), Treatise on the dates of the incarnation, birth, baptism, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (ff. 24r-)
  • ms_i1.23 (complete), On the four year evangelists' cycle (on the days of their beginnings) and the epacts. (ff. 27v-)
  • ms_i1.24 (complete), On the golden number (ff. 31r-)
  • ms_i1.25 (complete), Chronological excerpts (ff. 31v-)
  • ms_i1.26 (complete), Tǝrgʷāme miṭata bǝrhānāta samāy (ff. 36r-)
  • ms_i1.27 (complete), On passages of and relating to the epagomenous days (ff. 37v-)
  • ms_i1.28 (complete), On the length of the days and nights in the twelve months of the year, according to (ff. 39r-)
  • ms_i1.29 (complete), On the increasing and decreasing of the length of the days and nights (ff. 39v-)
  • ms_i1.30 (complete), Explanation of the chapter of dealing with the moon's revolutions (ff. 40r-)
  • ms_i1.31 (complete), On the lunar phases and their dates (ff. 40v-)
  • ms_i1.32 (complete), On the moon's revolutions and their dates (ff. 41v-)
  • ms_i1.33 (complete), On the risings of the moon (ff. 42v-)
  • ms_i1.34 (complete), On the moon's decrease (ff. 43v-)
  • ms_i1.35 (complete), Table of the epacts and the lunar months for the 19 year cycle (ff. 44v-)
  • ms_i1.36 (complete), On the stars, their stations, their risings, and ascensions (according to , Chapter 82) (ff. 53r-)
  • ms_i1.37 (complete), On the wind and other meteorological phenomena, according to (ff. 55r-)
  • ms_i1.38 (complete), On the new moon and other lunar phases (ff. 55v-)
  • ms_i1.39 (complete), ሐሳበ፡ ክንትሮስ፡ (ff. 56v-)
  • ms_i1.40 (complete), Main dates of the lives of Jesus Christ, St Mary and John (ff. 57r-)
  • ms_i1.41 (incomplete), Beginning of an enumeration of the wives and children of Jacob's twelve sons (ff. 57v-)
  • ms_i1.42 (complete), Table of the new moons for three 19-year-cycles and of the epacts (ff. 59r-)
  • ms_i2 (complete), Treatises and glosses on various biblical passages and various treatises on the chronology of Jewish and Ethiopian history (ff. 68r-)
  • ms_i2.1 (complete), Symbolical explanations of biblical passages (ff. 68r-)
  • ms_i2.2 (complete), Names of the Greek and Roman months (ff. 73v-)
  • ms_i2.3 (complete), Three concentric circles representing the zodiac, the eight spheres (the seven heavens and the heaven of fixed stars) and the seven planetary spheres (ff. 74r-)
  • ms_i2.4 (complete), Names of the Hebrew months (f. 75v)
  • ms_i2.5 (complete), Enumeration of the seven Jewish feasts, the ten plagues of Egypt and the tribes placed on mount Garizim and mount Hebal (ff. 75v-)
  • ms_i2.6 (complete), Chronology of the judges and kings of Israel and Judah since Adam (ff. 76r-)
  • ms_i2.7 (complete), Enumeration of the kings of Edom (f. 77v)
  • ms_i2.8 (complete), Chronology of the patriarchs, judges and kings of Israel and Judah and of the kings of Ethiopia until the 13th year of the reign of Claudius (ff. 77v-)
  • ms_i2.9 (complete), Summary of the chronology of the Old Testament until the birth of Jesus Christ (ff. 80v-)
  • ms_i2.10 (complete), Astronomical calculation of the birth, baptism and death of Jesus Christ (ff. 81r-)
  • ms_i2.11 (complete), Note on the number of bishops assembled at the Council of Nicaea, according to Cyril (ff. 82v-)
  • ms_i2.12 (complete), Table of the 33 calculations of the time of Easter with the Golden Number (ff. 84r-)
  • ms_i2.13 (complete), Enumeration of the Lord's feasts (ff. 89v-)
  • ms_i2.14 (complete), Fragment of the chronology of the history of Ethiopia (f. 90r)
  • ms_i2.15 (complete), List of the metropolitans of Ethiopia (ff. 90r-)
  • ms_i2.16 (complete), List of the patriarchs of Alexandria (ff. 90v-)
  • ms_i2.17 (complete), Note on the prophecy of Simon (ff. 91v-)
  • ms_i2.18 (complete), Explanation of technical terms used in the description of the tabernacle (ff. 92r-)
  • ms_i2.19 (complete), Symbolic explanation of Daniel's visions (ff. 96r-)
  • ms_i2.20 (complete), Table for the calculation of the 141 jubilees (ff. 109r-)
  • ms_i2.21 (complete), Table for the calculation of 13 dionysian periods of 532 years (f. 111r)
  • ms_i2.22 (complete), Spiritual genealogy of the abbots of the monasteries of House of Takla Hāymānot and House of Sāmuʾel of Wāldǝbbā (ff. 111r-)