I had a great discussion w/ someone today about practical tips for studying #manuscripts

even where programs offer language instruction (not a given), there's usually ZERO practice in paleography, codicology, using catalogs, interacting with manuscript libraries, etc.
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1/ why is knowing a little something about working with manuscripts meaningful?

even for heavily studied languages and text corpora (like certain periods of Greek and Latin lit.), and for which there are lots of editions, manuscripts should still be attracting readers
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for any Gǝʕǝz learners, past, present, or future,
a short thread on three common dictionaries!

#Gǝʕǝz #learnGǝʕǝz #Gǝʕǝzlexicography
/ the 1st major dict. of Gǝʕǝz was published in Leipzig in 1865, by August Dillmann (1823-1894), who had already prepared Gǝʕǝz manuscript catalogs, text editions (incl. Enoch & Jub), a ref. grammar (& a chrestomathy afterward): Lexicon linguae Aethiopicae
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