Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project

Here's a photo from our press conference yesterday: http://www.fotoglif.com/f/njk7yy6j8bps

Fotoglif - f - ETHIOPIA-US-RELIGION-HISTORY - One source, thousands of new photos a day, the worlds. A photo taken on June 02, 2010 shows Professor Steve Delamarter explaining the writings contained in an ancient Ethiopian prayer book handed back to the Horn of Africa nation by an American collector. The century-old Ethiopian prayer book stolen decades ago was returned to the African nation late Ju...

Today we surpassed 4,100 items digitized for the
British Library project and have taken over 365,000 images since December. The end of
the project is in sight.

The first month of the British Library project has been a tremendous success with 549 manuscripts digitized and 76,989 photos taken!! Also, the team that we hired has progressed very well and are digitizing at a great pace.

Jeremy is on his way to the HMML to work through 100 of the oldest Ethiopic manuscripts known. He's studying the way in which scribes made corrections to errors. I (Steve) will let him tell more about it.

Steve is preparing to work with Alan D. Crown by reading his (amazing) Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 80 (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001) and his Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998).