Wendy Laura Belcher (Comparative Literature; African American Studies)
This three-year project will create a comprehensive catalogue, clavis, edition, and database of the over 700 folktales of the Ethiopian Marian miracles, written from the 1300s through the 1900s in the ancient African language of Gəˁəz. Firestone Library holds the largest collection in the Americas of parchments containing these folktales and will be digitizing and posting them online over the next year. In anticipation of a surge in global interest, this project will create better data about the manuscripts. This project is also supported by the Center for Digital Humanities, and the translation of a core text is supported by a grant from the Office of the Dean for Research. Supported by a Humanities Council David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant
