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Ethiopic Book Heritage Event at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Ethiopic Book Heritage Event attendees in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library sitting in rows in front of the speaker.

Early modern map of Africa in a printed book from 1741, depicting ‘Aethiopica’ and including a Ge’ez syllabary. Gottfried Hensel, Synopsis universae philologiae. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Early modern map of Africa in colour from a printed book from 1741, depicting ‘Aethiopica’ and including a Ge’ez syllabary.

Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines a printed book containing early modern maps of Ethiopia.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines a printed book containing early modern maps of Ethiopia while standing behind a table.

Hagos Abhra Abay (U. Toronto), Eyob Derillo (British Library), and Gelila Tilahun (Toronto) at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event, Toronto.
Hagos Abhra Abay, Eyob Derillo, and Gelila Tilahun standing in a circle talking to each other at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event.

Detail of an Ethiopian manuscript in Ge’ez language and script, with a red textiles bookmark sewn into the corner of the page. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Hand holding the corner of a page showing a detail of an Ethiopian manuscript in Ge’ez language and script, with a red textiles bookmark sewn into the corner of the page.

Visitors view manuscripts at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event.
Two visitors at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event smiling for the camera with one holding an image of a manuscript.

Visitors view manuscripts at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Visitors view manuscripts at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

Ethiopia & Coastal East Africa

Engineers Mei Li and Aly Abdelaziz from Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group (University of Toronto) discuss a book’s structure visualized using microCT. Photo: Matt Volpe
Engineers Mei Li and Aly Abdelaziz from Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group stand in front of a wall-size microCT image, gesturing at details

Engineers Mei Li and Aly Abdelaziz from Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group (University of Toronto) discuss a book’s structure visualized using microCT. Photo: Matt Volpe
Close-up view of a manuscript being examined using micro CT.
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