A Few Notes—Once More—on Editing Ethiopic Texts

For the obvious reason that, particularly in earlier periods starting from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, Ethiopia was known to a large extent, not only through encounters with Ethiopians in their country and abroad (especially in Rome and the Near East), but also through the analysis of its written heritage transmitted in manuscripts, a large part of Ethiopian studies has consisted in the examination and publication of its written heritage, namely texts and mostly Gǝʿǝz texts. Editing therefore is traditionally a branch of ‘classical Ethiopian studies’ and it was from the very beginning an essential component of the broader Ethiopian studies.