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On 23 and 24 February 2018, a two-day workshop took place at Universität Hamburg, dedicated to ‘Linking Manuscripts from the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syriac Domain: Present and Future Synergy Strategies’.
Several projects based at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies at Hamburg were behind the workshop. These included the Union of the German Academies-sponsored Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the ERC-funded TraCES: From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, both chaired by Alessandro Bausi. The Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg provided significant funds for academic exchange between Ethiopianists in Hamburg and Copenhagen within the framework of the project Transmission of Knowledge in the Red Sea Area. The initiative was co-sponsored by the ERC-funded project PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage based at Sapienza Università di Roma and headed by Paola Buzi. Cooperating projects included the projects CMCL: Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (Rome / Hamburg), Syriaca.org (Vanderbilt University, Nashville), IslHornAfr: Islam in the Horn of Africa: A Comparative Literary Approach (Copenhagen), and EMA: Ethiopian Manuscripts Archives (Paris). Local organization was in the hands of Pietro Liuzzo and Eugenia Sokolinski.
The aim of the workshop was to have an informal exchange of practices accepted by the different research initiatives working with manuscripts from
similar backgrounds and having a strong digital dimension.