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Attendees enjoying the reception hosted by the Bikila Award and organised by President Tessema Mulugeta and other community members now living in the Toronto area.
Attendees enjoying the reception hosted by the Bikila Award and organised by President Tessema Mulugeta and other community members in a large room talking and eating.

Event reception at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, complete with a spread of Ethiopian foods and an Ethiopian coffee ceremony.
Spread of Ethiopian foods and an Ethiopian coffee ceremony on a white tray surrounded by green plants.

An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium (collection of saints’ lives used in liturgy) with painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board. Tafari Codex 3, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium manuscript with colourful painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board.

Textile overcover and foredge wrap on a 19th-c. Ethiopian copy of the Meditation on the Crucifixion
Close-up of a red and white textile overcover and foredge wrap on a 19th-c. Ethiopian copy of the Meditation on the Crucifixion

Visitors view manuscripts at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event.
Visitors at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event standing behind a table of five manuscripts open for display

Head of Special Collections, David Fernandez, delivers the introduction to the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
David Fernandez giving opening remarks at a podium, at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event

Archangel with wings unfurled and sword raised overhead, from Amulet Scroll, Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00001.

Stylized humanoid figure from an Amulet Scroll. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00002.

Angel with wings unfurled and stars overhead, holding two long white objects. Amulet Scroll, Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00003.

Stylized humanoid figure from an Amulet Scroll. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00004.
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