The project also trained a number of young individuals on the techniques of documenting endangered archives through digital photography. The project digitised 54 manuscripts from 8 personal collections, covering more than 85 Ge’ez - Amharic commentaries of different books from the four sections of Ethiopian Exegesis: Old Testament, New Testament, Patristic Works and Monastic Canons & Writings. No initiatives have been made to document this rich tradition of medieval scholarship either at home or abroad. There is no traditional school in the country which hosts the lay bet andemta even in Gojjam where it could stay flourished for centuries after being successfully rescued from the subjugation of the tach bet ('Upper House') andemta. This is a result of the long negligence the tradition received from students of the field due to the gigantic nature of its content and the different archaic features it contains. In the contemporary ecclesiastical scholarship of Ethiopia, the old lay bet andemta tradition is considered as obsolete and students are not encouraged to study it at all. The codices are kept along with other stuffs packed in boxes and simple shelves in the houses of the owners and monastic eqa bets which can be easily destroyed by fire or flood or the general temprature and humidity they are exposed to. Their unfamiliarity to the contents of the codices can be shown in a short expression of one interviewee: ''they are the caskets of a dead knowledge.'' The state of preservation of the codices in most of the private owners and monastic collections is hazardous. About 65% of the codices are kept in private hands - farmers and local small business owners who received the codices from their parents as a family inheritance. The remainder are located in the adjacent areas of East Gojjam and South Gondar regions. The majority of them are found in East Gojjam (in the rural areas of Debre Markos, Bichena, Dimma, Debre Work, Motta, Addet) where the school of thought once flourished.
About 75% of the manuscripts are parchments while the rest are papers. The majority of the manuscripts identified are in a sufficient condition to be preserved. This project should facilitate further work in the field in general and the rest of the Hermenutical Books in particular. Study of the andemta commentary tradition in general and the lay bet andemta tradition in particular has lagged behind the studies of the other branches of Ethiopian culture mainly due to the lack of material in modern libraries and museums. George (East Gojjam), and the University of Hamburg.
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The digital copies of each item will be kept for documentation and access for readers at the British Library, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Patriarchate Library Museum, the National Archive and Library of Ethiopia, the Monastic Library of (the Monastery of) Debre Dimah St. The original codices will remain in the hands of the custodians. The material includes 70-75 codices which cover the Ge'ez - Amharic commentary of the four sections of Ethiopian Exegesis: Old Testament, New Testament, Patristic Works and Monastic Canons & Writings. The formerly famous exegetical school of thought known as lay bet has survived only in the much endangered codices which are kept mostly in private and in rare monastic collections in Eastern Gojjam and Southern Gondar regions, Ethiopia. This project aims to digitise the andemta (Ge'ez - Amharic commentary) manuscripts of biblical and patristic commentaries made according to the lay bet exegetical tradition. Why you need to protect your intellectual property.Galleries, Reading Rooms, Shop and Catering Opening Times Vary.
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