Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project

The Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP), volume 7, provides a full catalog for the collection of fifty-four manuscripts in the Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab collection at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These include one late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century manuscript of Jubilees and the Minor Prophets. Each catalog entry provides a full physical description, a listing of contents (with incipits), illuminations, varia (known works added later), notes on codicology and scribal practice, as well as a full quire map. Opening articles provide an introduction to the collection, a biography of Alaqa Meseret's life and work, an introduction to the Ethiopian musical tradition of Saint Yared, and a study on the textual character of the manuscript of Jubilees. Four indices (works, names, miniatures, and scribal practice) provide quick access for the researcher.

"Apart from Biblical and liturgical texts one finds there [in the book] theological treatises (such as the famous Qerellos), synaxaria and some hagiographies as well as a certain number of manuscripts with tradtional Ethiopian musical notation. The gem of the collection is however the fifteenth/sixteenth-century codex containing, among others, the Book of Jubilees." -Marcin Krawczuk, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Vol. XLIV, 2014

Kesis Melaku Terefe served the church in Ethiopia for several years. For the last nine years he has served as priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in LosAngeles, California. Jeremy R. Brown works in the EMIP as director of digitization and technology. Steve Delamarter is Professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, and Director of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP).