Encoding the Ethiopic Manuscript Tradition

The Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea project aims to construct a virtual research environment to encode and manage the rich and complex manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands. The Ethiopic manuscript culture, consisting of varying and difficult-to-identify literary works, is a living tradition. This project explores the difficulties in encoding and managing the relationships not only between the manuscripts themselves, but also between the manuscripts and the broader Ethiopian literary traditions that include Greek and Arabic texts as well.