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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ethiopic Book Heritage Event at Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

Eyob Derillo delivering his lecture on “Text and Image: Divination, Handbooks, Scrolls & Magic in the Ethiopic Tradition” at the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.