TY - JOUR A1 - Nosnitsin, D. A1 - Kindzorra, Emanuel A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Rabin, Ira T1 - A "study manuscript" from Qäqäma (Tagray, Ethiopia): Attempts at ink and parchment analysis JF - Comparative oriental manuscript studies newsletter N2 - The library of the remote monastery of Qäqäma Maryam Kidanä Mehrät in Däg'a Tämben (Tagray, North Ethiopia) was investigated by the team of the project Ethio-SPaRe in June and November 2012. A preliminary study of the library showed that the collection was extended and profoundly renovated in the nineteenth Century, in the course of the revival the monastery had during the reign of King Yohannas IV (1872-89). The shaping of the collection was apparently linked to the figure of the powerful abbot, Gäbrä Giyorgis, who donated dozens of books of diverse provenance, which he himself gathered or received as gifts.1 As the result, the extensive library contains a huge amount of information, but its heterogeneity poses a very serious challenge to the researcher. KW - X-ray fluorescence analysis KW - Raman spectroscopy KW - Manuscript studies PY - 2014 SN - 2078-3841 VL - 7 SP - 28 EP - 31 PB - ESF CY - Strasbourg AN - OPUS4-30864 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -