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Anqäs Concerning Love, 1788-1800
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Arrangement
Arranged in manuscript number order, by accession. Numbers 29 and 67-71 are unassigned.
Collection History
- Sponsorship:
This cataloging project was made possible through generous support from the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Princeton University.
- Processing Information
The present finding aid was prepared in June-July 2009 by Kesis Melaku Terefe , Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Los Angeles, with assistance of Prof. Wendy Laura Belcher , Department of Comparative Literature and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. This cataloging project was made possible through generous support from the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Princeton University.
In 2022, restrictions on manuscripts No. 54, 57, and 65 were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
In 2022, manuscripts nos. 86-95 were added to the collection.
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- Credit this material:
Anqäs Concerning Love; Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, C0776, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Bibliography
Regarding previous cataloging of Cycle of the Kings, B.Turaev, Efiopskiya rukopisi v S. Peterburge, Sanktpeterburg 1906 III, 11, 23, 46; Strelcyn (Graule) 390, 391, 405, 641, 650; E. Ullendorff and Stephen G. Wright, Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, 1961. LVII; S. Strelcyn Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.xxxv(1972), pp.27-54 XVII, For further information, see C.Conti Rossini " Lo 'Awda nagast scritto divinatorio etiopico" RSE, 1941,127-45; Marcel Griaule, Notes sur l'arithmomancie éthiopi éthiopienne enne" Journal de l Societe des Africanistes 4, 1934, 25-31 Strelcyn 98, Encyclopedia Aethiopica vol. 1, pp.402; Zä-Mänfäs Qəddus Abrəha Hatäta Mänafəst ... Wä-Awdä Nägäśt, Asmara, 1949 E.C.