When Harar was absorbed into the Ethiopian empire, education centres, once responsible for manuscript production, were shut down or destroyed. Without new manuscripts, bookbinding disappeared.

“Ancient parchment manuscripts are disappearing from our ... of prayers or paintings to have “reproductions of ancient Ethiopian works”, she adds. “Small books can take one or two months.

The green, yellow, and red of Ethiopia’s early manuscripts, also the colors of the modern flag, separate the show into contextualizing, culturally connective, and contemporary sections.

“Ancient parchment manuscripts are disappearing from our ... of prayers or paintings to have “reproductions of ancient Ethiopian works”, she adds. “Small books can take one or two months.

Yeshiemebet said that most of the manuscripts are commissioned by individuals who donate them to churches or monasteries. Some customers order small collections of prayers or paintings to have ...

“I pitched the idea for this show at my job interview six years ago,” says Christine Sciacca, the show’s curator, who specialises in Ethiopian, Italian and German illuminated manuscript ...

These are typical examples of Ethiopian art at two widely differing periods, the illustrations of the earlier manuscript being, of course, cruder both in design and coloring, with less attempt at ...

It was looted by a British Museum agent, Richard Holmes, who had been sent to bring back manuscripts and antiquities from Ethiopia. On his return he failed to hand over the masterpiece to the ...

manuscripts. After years of painstaking searches going from household to household, he collected enough items to open Ethiopia’s first private museum, Abdallah Sherif Museum, 14 years ago in the ...