Особенности работы переписчиков эфиопских царских хроник Позднего Средневековья

Abstract

A number of works by both Ethiopian researchers and clergymen, and scholars outside of Ethiopia are devoted to the process of making of Ethiopian manuscripts and of their copying. Most of these works describe the features of the process of writing on the base of the experience of contemporary Ethiopian scribes. Historical data on the scribes’ work are little known and, in this regard, did not become the object of a particular research. In addition, related scientific works were most often created on the base of manuscripts of religious nature. The present study examines the work of scribes of specific lists on the base of a comparison with each other of handwritten copies of the texts of the royal chronicles of the second half of the 18th century, namely, of the kings Takla Haymanot II and Takla Giorgis I from the manuscripts of Eth. 143 from the collection of the National Library of France and Orient. 821 from the British Library.