For seventeen centuries they have kept the faith in stone and ink: scholar-monks at Aksum, Debre Damo, and the island monasteries of Lake Tana, copying Ge’ez by hand, illuminating gospels in gold and vermillion, singing a liturgy that has not paused, keeping the Kebra Nagast and the theological imagination that grew around it.
“Pray for the sinful scribe who copied this book.”
— REPEATED REFRAIN ACROSS CENTURIES OF GE’EZ MANUSCRIPTS
