Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Vol 2

Dr Veronika Six, protégée of the late Ernst Hammerschmidt, is a scholar of Ethiopian and African studies, ethnology, and educational science. Six is employed in the German project, Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD) where she works on the Ethiopian and Coptic Christian-Arabic manuscripts, which are in the State and University Library at Hamburg. This project has published its findings in the series Verzeichnis der Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD). Working with diverse Ethiopic texts as source materials, she has published several articles on history, religion, codicology, and art.Steve Delamarter is Professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Director of the EMIP, Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature's Consultation on the Ethiopic Bible and Literature, and Project Co-Director in the British Library Endangered Archives Programme project in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Delamarter is also head of the steering committee for the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project.Kesis Melaku Terefe is a priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Los Angeles, California. He served as cataloguer of the Wolf Leslau collection of Ethiopian manuscripts at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, and for the Robert Garrett collection of Ethiopic manuscripts at the Princeton University Library.Getatchew Haile is a MacArthur Fellow who has also taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopic) before he moved to the United States in 1976. Getatchew is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and has served the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (Collegeville, Minnesota) as Curator of the Ethiopian Study Center, as Regents Professor of Medieval Studies, and as Cataloguer of Oriental Manuscripts, Emeritus.Jeremy R. Brown works in the EMIP as director of digitization and technology. In 2008 and 2009, he served on a digitization team that worked in Ethiopia to digitize about 1,200 manuscripts. Between January and June 2010, he served as Director of Digitization and Conservation in the Endangered Archives Programme grant to digitize the collection at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Erik C. Young worked on the staff of the EMIP in manuscript digitization and physical descriptions. In December of 2008 and January of 2009, he served on a digitization team that worked in Ethiopia to digitize about 1,200 manuscripts.

The catalogue is furnished with a set of useful indices: general subject and modern names, works in the codices, names and places in the scrolls, miniatures, and finally - and again this is an important innovation - scribal practises. It should be stressed here that the amount of information on the physical features of manuscripts including issues such as binding techniques, covers, and arrangement of quires is very impressive, and even attempts are made to provide some statistical generalizations (pp. xxxv-xxxvii) concerning the quire structure. Since our knowledge of Ethiopian bookmaking still leaves a lot to be desired this is a very recommended approach.

• Series Foreword Preface Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations Introduction to the Codicology of the Collection / Steve DelamarterIntroduction to the Scrolls of Ethiopian Spiritual Healing / Veronika SixCatalogue of the Codices / Melaku Terefe, Steve Delamarter, Getatchew Haile, Jeremy Brown, and Erik YoungCatalogue of the Scrolls of Ethiopian Spiritual Healing / Veronika SixList of the Manuscripts by EMIP Number and Owner Number List of Dated or Datable Codices List of Undated Codices List of Dates of Magic Scrolls Bibliography General Index of Subject and Modern Names Index of Works in the Codices Index of Names and Places in the Codices Index of Miniatures in the Codices Index of Scribal Practices in the Codices Index of Works and Themes in the Scrolls of Spiritual HealingIndex of Names in the Scrolls of Spiritual Healing