A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections

Illustrated manuscripts in the Ethiopic language, as material objects that carry textual and visual information, are among most valuable sources of data for art historians specializing this area. This article provides a handlist illustrated early Solomonic housed German libraries museums. The contribution was created within framework AHRC-DFG project Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, identity Ethiopia (1270–1527) so our reflects project’s research focus on matter. is first time illuminations included analysed comprehensively. We believe resulting work sheds new light history book illustration hope it will provide researchers with instrument to foster comparative more integrative approach study Ethiopian art.