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The Book of Aksum or Mats'hafa Aksum(Ge'ez
Ge'ez alphabet

Ge'ez , also called Ethiopic, is an abugida script that was originally developed to write Ge'ez language, a Semitic languages. In communities that use it, such as the Amharic language and Tigrinya language, the script is called , which means "script" or "alphabet"....
 ???? ? ???? ma??afa aksum, , , ) is the name accepted since the time of James Bruce
James Bruce

James Bruce was a Scotland traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile....
 for a collection of documents from the St. Mary Cathedral of Aksum providing information on Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
n history
Historiography

Historiography is the aspect of semiotics that is the study of how knowledge of the past, recent or distant, is obtained and transmitted. Broadly speaking, historiography examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods, drawing upon such elements such as authorship, sourcing, interpretation, style, bias, and audience....
. The earliest parts of the collection date to the mid-15th century during the reign of Zar'a Ya`qob
Zara Yaqob

Zar'a Ya`qob or Zera Yacob was Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. Born at Tilq in the province of Fatagar , Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I of Ethiopia and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra....
 (r. 1434 - 1468).

The documents were classified by the book's editor Carlo Conti Rossini into three parts: the first, earlier, section describes the Church Maryam Seyon
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the most important church of Ethiopia. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Christian emperor of Ethiopia, during the fourth century AD, and has been rebuilt several times since then....
 in Aksum prior to its damaging in the mid-16th century, the topography of Aksum and its history, and contains a list of services and the like regarding Maryam Seyon and its clergy.






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The Book of Aksum or Mats'hafa Aksum(Ge'ez
Ge'ez alphabet

Ge'ez , also called Ethiopic, is an abugida script that was originally developed to write Ge'ez language, a Semitic languages. In communities that use it, such as the Amharic language and Tigrinya language, the script is called , which means "script" or "alphabet"....
 ???? ? ???? ma??afa aksum, , , ) is the name accepted since the time of James Bruce
James Bruce

James Bruce was a Scotland traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile....
 for a collection of documents from the St. Mary Cathedral of Aksum providing information on Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
n history
Historiography

Historiography is the aspect of semiotics that is the study of how knowledge of the past, recent or distant, is obtained and transmitted. Broadly speaking, historiography examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods, drawing upon such elements such as authorship, sourcing, interpretation, style, bias, and audience....
. The earliest parts of the collection date to the mid-15th century during the reign of Zar'a Ya`qob
Zara Yaqob

Zar'a Ya`qob or Zera Yacob was Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. Born at Tilq in the province of Fatagar , Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I of Ethiopia and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra....
 (r. 1434 - 1468).

The documents were classified by the book's editor Carlo Conti Rossini into three parts: the first, earlier, section describes the Church Maryam Seyon
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the most important church of Ethiopia. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Christian emperor of Ethiopia, during the fourth century AD, and has been rebuilt several times since then....
 in Aksum prior to its damaging in the mid-16th century, the topography of Aksum and its history, and contains a list of services and the like regarding Maryam Seyon and its clergy. The second part, dated to the early 17th century, contains 103 historical and legal texts, many dealing with land grants, along with their protocols, while the third text dates to the late 17th century and contains 14 miscellaneous legal and historical texts regarding Aksum's history. The book was also supplemented in the mid-19th century with further later documents.

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  • Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
    Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

    The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the most important church of Ethiopia. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Christian emperor of Ethiopia, during the fourth century AD, and has been rebuilt several times since then....
  • History of Ethiopia
    History of Ethiopia

    Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, with one of the longest recorded histories in the world....