A binding of a small Ethiopian book with wooden covers and folk mends. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

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.

Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines a printed book containing early modern maps of Ethiopia.

Hagos Abhra Abay (U. Toronto), Eyob Derillo (British Library), and Gelila Tilahun (Toronto) at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event, Toronto.

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.

Visitors view manuscripts at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event.

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

Detail of a manuscript in the Ge’ez language and script.

Backlit page of a Qur’an on paper from Harar, Ethiopia. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05330.

Qur’an from Siyu, Kenya. Fowler Museum, UCLA.