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Ms Ethiopic 4 of the Collection of the India Office: A strayed Manuscript of Gadla Lālibalā

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: In all likelihood it was the German missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf who commissioned a manuscript with hagiographic texts about King Lālibalā in the first decade of the nineteenth century, in Šawā. This manuscript was eventually used by August Dillmann for his Lexicon linguae aethiopicae published in 1865. More than eighty years later, the manuscript was catalogued by Enrico Cerulli in 1946 and was later lost somewhere on one of the numerous shelves of the collection of the India Office. It has recently been traced and is now to be found in the British Library under the shelf mark Ms Ethiopic 4.

Source: Aethiopica

DOI: 10.15460/aethiopica.20.1.1095

Author: Nafisa Valieva

Institution: Universität Hamburg

Language: English

Topic: Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: European Commission, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Universität Hamburg

Awards: G1595702732, G3207356259, G393177772, G5702163051