Ḥayq Esṭifānos Monastery: HMML Repository
Ḥayq Esṭifānos Monastery
The monastery of Ḥayq Esṭifānos, closely associated with St. Iyasus Mo'a, its first abbot, is located on an island in Lake Ḥayq in Wallo Province. Out of the approximately 200 manuscripts belonging to its venerable library, the EMML microfilmed nearly 150 codices dating from the 13th to 20th c.
- Collection
- Eastern Christian
- Country
- Ethiopia
- City
- Wallo Province
- Repository
- Ḥayq Esṭifānos Monastery
- Project Codes
- EMML
- Project Numbers
- EMML 1762-1768, 1823-1827, 1830-1844, 1929-1931, 1933-1937, 1939-1960, 1963, 2044-2047, 2049-2083, 2085-2096, 2789-2790, 2793, 2795-2799, 2801, 2803, 2806, 2808-2810, 2812-2823, 2962, 2966-2967, 2972-2973, 2977-2979, 2984, 2994, 7234, 7251, 7302, 7311
- Type
- Digital/Microform
- Active Catalog Records
- 150
- Digital Surrogates
- 150
- Microfilm Reels
- 149
- Date Preserved
- 1975-1976, 1980
- HMML Reading Room (sample record)
- https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/203594
- HMML Authority File
- https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/969445268200
- Languages
- Ge'ez, Amharic
- Bibliography
- See below
- Preservation Status
- Complete
- Cataloging Status
- In progress
- Legacy Catalog
- Yes
Bibliography
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).
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. VI: Project Numbers 2001-2500 (Collegeville, 1982).
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. VII: Project Numbers 2501-3000 (Collegeville, 1983).
Sergew Hable-Selassie, "The Monastic Library of Däbrä Hayq," in Orbis Aethiopicus: studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki natali septuagesimo quinto dicata, septuagesimo septimo oblata, ed. Piotr O. Scholz (2 vols.; Albstadt: Schuler, 1992), I.243-258.
Marie-Laure Derat, "Däbrä Ḥayq Esṭifanos," Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2 (2005), 24-25.