(From 8.40 am, tea/coffee will be served)
Context and History
CHAIR: Philip Booth Discussants: Mai Musié (Oxford) and Yoseph Araya (Open University)
09.00 Alessandro Bausi (HLCES, Hamburg), Introduction to the Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia: Early Developments and New Discoveries
09.45 Marie-Laure Derat (CNRS, Paris) Ethiopian Authors and Scribes in the Middle Ages: Monastic and Curial Milieu
10.30–10.50: Coffee Break
Art
CHAIR: Judith McKenzie Discussants: Yemane Asfedai (London) and Dereje Debella (London)
10.50 Jacopo Gnisci (BAV, Vatican/HLCES, Hamburg) Illustrated Ethiopic Gospels: From Late Antiquity to the EarlySolomonic Period (ca. 350-1527)
11.35 Tania Tribe (SOAS, London) Ethiopian Manuscript Painting: 16th to 18th Centuries
Chronicles and Manuscript Making
CHAIR:Elizabeth Jeffreys Discussants: Eyob Derillo (British Library) and Gianfrancesco Lusini (University of Naples“L’Orientale”)
13.30 Solomon Gebreyes Beyene (HLCES, Hamburg), Ethiopian Royal Chronicles: Production and Manuscript Tradition
14.15 Sean M. Winslow (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz), “Bless the Makers of Parchment, Because They Laboured Much”: Craft Practices of the Ethiopian Scribe
15.00: Tea break, followed by Bodleian visit to see some relevant highlights of its collection, led by César Merchán-Hamann
