Event reception at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, complete with a spread of Ethiopian foods and an Ethiopian coffee ceremony.

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.

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.

Head of Special Collections, David Fernandez, delivers the introduction to the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.