Dabra Libānos Monastery: HMML Repository
Dabra Libānos Monastery
Established in the early 14th c. by Takla Hāymānot, one of the most revered Ethiopian saints, Dabra Libānos, located 100 km north of Addis Ababa, is one of the largest and most important monastic centers in Ethiopia. Including more than two dozen volumes of archival records, its valuable library reaches a total of approximately 200 manuscripts, around half of which were microfilmed by the EMML.
- Collection
- Eastern Christian
- Country
- Ethiopia
- City
- Šawā Province
- Repository
- Dabra Libānos Monastery
- Project Codes
- EMML
- Project Numbers
- EMML 6461, 6521-6541, 6683-6710, 6771-6772, 6774, 6776, 6781, 6794-6798, 6800-6803, 6809-6812, 6818-6831, 6893-6902, 7340, 7342
- Type
- Digital/Microform
- Active Catalog Records
- 95
- Digital Surrogates
- 95
- Microfilm Reels
- 94
- Date Preserved
- 1977-1980
- HMML Reading Room (sample record)
- https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/200160
- HMML Authority File
- https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/406643350452
- Languages
- Ge'ez, Amharic
- Bibliography
- Sergew Hable-Selassie, Lists of Manuscripts of Some Churches in Shewa Province (1970/1972); Marie-Laure Derat, "Däbrä Libanos," Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2 (2005), 25-28.
- Preservation Status
- Complete
- Cataloging Status
- In progress
- Legacy Catalog
- Yes