ANN 12.05.2018

Manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea (Oxford, 1 Sep 18)

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU, 01.09.2018
Deadline/Anmeldeschluss: 31.08.2018

Jacopo Gnisci, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana/Hamburg University

Introducing Manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea
Study Day

(From 8.40 am, tea/coffee with be served)

CONTEXT AND HISTORY
Chair: Bryan Ward-Perkins Discussants: Mai Musié (Oxford) and Yoseph Araya (Open University)
09.00 Alessandro Bausi (HLCES, Hamburg), Introduction to the Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia: Early Developments and New Discoveries
09.45 Marie-Laure Derat (CNRS, Paris) Ethiopian Authors and Scribes in the Middle Ages: Monastic and Curial Milieu

10.30–10.50: Coffee Break

ART
Chair: Judith McKenzie Discussants: Yemane Asfedai (London) and Dereje Debella (London)
10.50 Jacopo Gnisci (BAV, Vatican/HLCES, Hamburg) Illustrated Ethiopic Gospels: From Late Antiquity to the Early Solomonic Period (ca. 350-1527)
11.35 Tania Tribe (SOAS, London) Ethiopian Manuscript Painting: 16th to 18th Centuries

12.20–13.30: Lunch

CHRONICLES AND MANUSCRIPT MAKING
Chair: Elizabeth Jeffreys Discussants: Eyob Derillo (British Library) and Gianfrancesco Lusini (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
13.30 Solomon Gebreyes Beyene (HLCES, Hamburg), Ethiopian Royal Chronicles: Production and Manuscript Tradition
14.15 Sean M. Winslow (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz), “Bless the Makers of Parchment, Because They Laboured Much”: Craft Practices of the Ethiopian Scribe

15.00: Tea break – Bodleian visit

Convenors: Jacopo Gnisci, Foteini Spingou, Miranda Williams, Judith McKenzie, and Rahel Fronda. Any questions, please contact Jacopo Gnisci, j.gniscilive.com

Attendance and refreshments, including lunch, are free, but please book a place at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/study-day-introducing-manuscripts-from-ethiopia-and-eritrea-tickets-45333377352
or by emailing foteini.spingouclassics.ox.ac.uk

Sponsored by the Classics Faculty, the Bodleian Library, the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the ERC Advanced Project Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East directed by Judith McKenzie, Maison Française d’Oxford, Beta Maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea, funded by The Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities through the Academy of Hamburg.

Quellennachweis:
ANN: Manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea (Oxford, 1 Sep 18). In: ArtHist.net, 12.05.2018. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/18115>.

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