Dear colleagues,
Join us on April, 5th 2011, 9AM PST, for a presentation on the Ethiopian manuscripts held by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Meet us at the "Insel der Information", the sim belonging to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and listen to Wolfgang Schmitt-Garibian (from the Oriental and East Asia Department of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Second Life avatar: Cono).
During the last 450 years the Bavarian State Library purchased an enormous and famous collection of precious manuscripts. Nowadays the Library holds the formidable number of 5000 manuscripts from North Africa and the Middle East. With 171 manuscripts in Ge'ez and Amharic the Ethiopian collection is the second largest one in Germany after the holdings in Berlin.
As early as 1571, i.e. 13 years later after the Library*s foundation, the first and oldest Ethiopian manuscript came by purchase of the Fugger*s library into the at that time Munich Court Library. A large number of important work of classic Ethiopian literature in Ge*ez is represented among the Ethiopian holdings in the Bavarian State Library: Translations of the books of the Bible, apocryphal texts of the Bible (e.g. Book of Henoch), hymns -partly added music notes, liturgic books (e.g. Deggw*), prayers, the famous Fetha naga*t, the historical book Z*n* Ayhud or medical and astronomic texts etc. The more than fifty magic scrolls representing the popular belief of the Christian Ethiopic people are in the same way significant.
Apart from an overview of the Ethiopian collection, the talk will hint the catalogues and briefly expose some particularities of the codices.
Landmark: Insel der Information http://slurl.com/secondlife/Insel%20der%20Information/132/23/22
Kontakt: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Virtuelle-Services-in-Second-L.2264.0.html (German)
URL: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Virtual-Services-in-Second-Lif.2264+M57d0acf4f16.0.html (English)
Best wishes,
Antje Blomeyer
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Antje Blomeyer
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Direktion
D - 80328 Muenchen
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