Gunda Gundē Monastery: HMML Repository
Gunda Gundē Monastery
The digitization of the Gunda Gundē library, sponsored by HMML in 2006, preserved for posterity an ecclesiastical collection long recognized as one of the largest and most significant in Ethiopia. On-site in a remote part of northern Tegrāy close to the Eritrean border, 219 codices were photographed, constituting virtually the entirety of the present-day collection, one diminished in size from the nearly 300-volume library in existence a century earlier.
- Collection
- Eastern Christian
- Country
- Ethiopia
- City
- Tegrāy Province
- Repository
- Gunda Gundē Monastery
- Project Codes
- GG
- Project Numbers
- GG 00001-GG00219
- Type
- Digital
- Active Catalog Records
- 219
- Digital Surrogates
- 219
- Date Preserved
- 2006
- HMML Reading Room (sample record)
- https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/500155
- HMML Authority File
- https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/210313367594
- Languages
- Ge'ez, Amharic
- Bibliography
- Antonio Mordini, “Il convento di Gunde Gundiè,” Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 12 (1953): 29-70; Ted Erho, “The Library and Old Testament Manuscripts of Gundä Gunde,” in Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History: Festschrift for Getatchew Haile, ed. Adam Carter McCollum (Aethiopistische Forschungen 83; Wiesbaden, 2017), 297-319; Robert Beylot. "Gundä Gunde, History," Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2 (2005), 917-919; Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, "Gundä Gunde, Art and architecture of Gundä Gunde," Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2 (2005), 919-921.
- Preservation Status
- Complete
- Cataloging Status
- Complete
- Legacy Catalog
- Yes