Truly, your service to the profession cannot be overstated.

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Under what circumstances were papyri purchased on the Egyptian antiquities market in the early 20c? How was the papyrologist Carl Schmidt involved in the illegal export of papyri? Join us for the Gotha Manuscript Talk by Jakob Wigand (18 March 2026, 6:15 CET)
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It just means you have great instincts!

Thank you for the kind shoutout! Although there are certainly many things worthy of mention, your work and the volume you’ve shared has been foundational for my interests in the topic.

Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript evidence from the medieval period survives until today in varying states of preservation, ranging from whole codices, small fragments, or somewhere in-between. Some exemplars, for example, were later palimpsested to accommodate new texts. One such case is shown in the image above. Now housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this manuscript was acquired by Antoine d’Abbadie (1810–1897) during his travels in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. While the overtext dates to the seventeenth century, the pages on which it was written were taken from at least four earlier manuscripts, ranging from the fourteenth (or possibly earlier) to the early sixteenth centuries. This written artefact, and other palimpsests like it in the Ethiopian and Eritrean context, was treated recently in Erho 2025. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, ms. Ethiopien d’Abbadie 191, f. 96v. Gallica. Accessed 20 August 2025.

Donation List of ʾIyasus Moʾa from the gospel book of ʾIyasus Moʾa = EMML 1832 (1280/1281), recording the manuscripts that he donated to the monastery of Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos on his death in 1292. This important document is treated in my dissertation. Image courtesy of Meseret Oldjira.

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost:
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Publication day! 🤩🥳
We are extremely excited to share the new volume of AETHIOPICA with you!
Vol. 27 (2024) is hot off the press, and also available online in open access.
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Looking forward to the dissertation!