Organizing committee: Gianfrancesco Lusini, Gioia Bottari, Massimo Villa

University of Naples "L'Orientale", Palazzio Corigliano. Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12 - Naples

Thursday, 21 November 2024

9.30 Academic greetings

Session 1 (Sala Conferenze, II piano)

10.00 Gianfrancesco Lusini, The CaNaMEI Project: the present State and the future
10:30 Aaron Butts, Identifying texts in Manuscript cataloguing
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Dirbwork Bitsu Kassa, Practices and Limitations of Printed Manuscript Catalogue in Ethiopia and its Transition from Monastic Inventory
11.45 Jonas Karlsson, Markup of Ethiopic text in digital cataloguing
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch break

Session 2 (Aula Mura Greche, S8)

14.30 Vitagrazia Pisani, Features of Some Gǝbra Ḥǝmāmāt’s Witnesses from Tǝgrāy: Insights Following the Ethio-SPaRe Cataloguing Experience
15.00 Massimo Villa, Cataloguing the Mordini’s manuscripts at the Biblioteca Palatina, Parma: Some Case-studies
15.30 Coffee break
15.45 Rafał Zarzeczny, Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Vatican Library: New Acquisitions, Study Perspectives, and Cataloging Challenges
16.15 Sophia Dege-Müller, Towards a Comprehensive Catalogue of Beta Ǝsrāʾel manuscripts: New Ideas and Considerations
16.45 Discussion

Friday 22 November

Session 3 (Sala Conferenze, II piano)

9.30 Alessandro Bausi, Cataloguing manuscripts and its contribution to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: a retrospective view on the last decades and the role of the project ‘Beta maṣāḥǝft’
10.00 Denis Nosnitsin, Cataloguing Manuscripts in the Beta maṣāḥǝft Project: Describing Contents
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Eugenia Sokolinskaia, Digital cataloguing and controlled vocabularies: the Beta maṣāḥǝft experience
11.15 Guesh Solomon, Encodings and Documentation of Ethiopian and Eritrean Art in the Beta maṣāḥǝft Digital Database
11.45 Discussion
12.00 Lunch break

Session 4 (Sala Conferenze, II piano)

14.00 Gioia Bottari, Cataloguing Stratification in Ethiopian Manuscripts: Nature and Role of Codicological Units
14.30 Antonella Brita, Some Considerations on Labels and Titles in Ethiopian Manuscripts
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Daria Elagina, Cataloguing Tables and Diagrams in Ethiopic Manuscripts: Some Preliminary Observations
15.45 Pietro Liuzzo, Ethiopic labels on drawings of animals from the end of the 16th century
16.15 Discussion
16.30 Round-table discussion