Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project

We are getting ready to go to Ankober, birthplace to Emperor Menelik II, in order to return the Psalter. We are hoping to digitize some manuscripts while we are there.

Jeremy has worked through 54 of the oldest Ethiopic manuscripts over the last two days, while searching for scribal corrections. Highlights have included two 16th century manuscripts with over 250 corrections in a 20th century hand & a 14th century manuscript with 124 corrections in a 14th century hand.

has been trying to find the right tool to help us digitally foliate the sets of pictures we take of codices. Each image has to be successively numbered in the upper right corner. Manually, takes about one hour and 15 minutes for each manuscript. InDesign to the rescue. We got it down to 15 minutes. Jeremy is a happy camper!