The gallery shows actual artwork only when the exact image and its display rights are verified. The larger research inventory remains documented here without turning text-only records into picture cards.
Use a stable painting ID, shelfmark, accession or catalogue entry.
Transcribe the specialist or repository description without adding a school, workshop or province.
Show an image only when the exact object and a usable rights statement are both confirmed.
Browse all 331 British Library Ethiopian manuscript records
These sources provide the stable record identifiers and the majority of item-level descriptions.
British LibraryLive catalogue and IIIF manifests; harvested 17 August 2026
British Library
All 331 Ethiopian manuscript catalogue records are indexed, including the 247 that currently expose official IIIF manifests. Conservatively extracted catalogue art folios are attached with source backlinks; ambiguous and uncatalogued page-level art remains marked for visual audit.Princeton CDHVersion 1.0
Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities
2,121 painting records from 231 manuscripts; every released painting row is represented in this catalogue.Zenodo2022
Wendy Laura Belcher and the PEMM team
The versioned data release used for painting IDs, scenes, manuscript dates, repositories and source links.vHMML Reading RoomCatalogue series
EMML / Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
1,335 printed-catalogue image descriptions are indexed as source-only records; scans are not redistributed.Article evidence is indexed with its qualifiers and disagreements intact.
UCL Discovery / Aethiopica 262023
Jonas Karlsson, Jacopo Gnisci, and Sophia Dege-Müller
All 41 handlist entries are indexed with the article's date evidence and visual inventories.Journal of the Walters Art Museum 762023
Christine Sciacca
Nine distinct manuscript or parchment-art objects from the article's figure captions are indexed below.Journal of the Walters Art Museum 782025
The Journal of the Walters Art Museum
Technical evidence for pigments, inks, ruling and manufacture; useful for material descriptions rather than place attribution.Holding institutions remain the authority for accession, rights and present custody.
V&ACurrent institutional research
Victoria and Albert Museum
Repository-led provenance research. Provenance is kept separate from place of production in this catalogue.Upload platforms can surface relevant papers, but their snippets and copies do not replace the publication or collection record.
ResearchGate / Academia.eduDiscovery only
ResearchGate and Academia.edu contributors
Used to locate publications, never as the final authority for an item. Claims must be confirmed in a paper, dataset or holding-institution record before publication.Source-only records are intentional. When a paper or catalogue confirms an artwork but does not grant reusable image rights, the site links to the source and does not substitute a neighbouring folio. ResearchGate and Academia.edu are used to discover scholarship, never to establish an item claim by themselves.
