Dabra Berhān Śellāsē Church: HMML Repository

Dabra Berhān Śellāsē Church

A former capital of Šawā, Dabra Berhān lies just over 100 km northeast of Addis Ababa. The town's Trinity (Śellāsē) church preserves a manuscript collection of several dozen codices, 46 of which were microfilmed by the EMML.


Collection
Eastern Christian
Country
Ethiopia
City
Šawā Province
Repository
Dabra Berhān Śellāsē Church
Project Codes
EMML
Project Numbers
EMML 1874-1876, 1878-1900, 1902-1909, 1911-1913, 1915, 1917-1924
Type
Digital/Microform
Active Catalog Records
52
Digital Surrogates
53
Microfilm Reels
46
Date Preserved
1975
HMML Reading Room (sample record)
https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/203725
HMML Authority File
https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/898597002128
Languages
Ge'ez, Amharic
Bibliography
Sergew Hable-Selassie, Lists of Manuscripts of Some Churches in Shewa Province (1970/1972); Getatchew Haile and William F. Macomber, A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville. Vol. V: Project Numbers 1501-2000 (Collegeville, 1981); Richard Pankhurst, "Däbrä Bərhan," Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2 (2005), 11-12.
Preservation Status
Complete
Cataloging Status
In progress
Legacy Catalog
Yes

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