Episode 23: Mazmura Dawit (Psalms of David), in Ge’ez, 19th century CE

Hosted by Joseph Kopta 

Release date: October 15, 2024  

About this episode of A Look at a Book   

About the host:   

 Dr. Joseph R. Kopta (he/they) is Assistant Professor of Instruction, Global Medieval Art, in the Art History Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. His intellectual interests are informed by issues of materiality, phenomenology of vision, pre-modern gender, and networks between Byzantium, Africa, Venice, and caliphal courts. 

Links:   

Mazmura Dawit (Psalms of David), in Ge’ez, ca. 19th century CE. Ethopian Empire (present-day Ethiopia) (SCRC 701) 

Catalogue entry in The Art of the Book 

Video of dynamic book structure in use 

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