IES-Library, Foreign Language Unit
Foreign Language unit of the Library of the Institute
of Ethiopian Studies is situated in the first floor of the Institute,
former Genete Leul Palace of the Emperor Haileselassie.
The foreign language collections of the library is
organized separately in order to preserve the materials and serve the
users efficiently. The library collects, organizes, preserves and
provide services for published and unpublished documents on Ethiopia
written in several foreign languages, of which English, French,
Italian, German account for the most part.
The library consists rare
and best collections of about 30,000 Books, Monographs, Manuscripts,
Pamphlets, Conference Proceedings, Dissertations, Theses, Senior
Essays and Miscellaneous collections.
Our rare collections are dated back to 17th
century. Some of them are:
- Lettere Annve Di Ethiopia, 1628
- The Travelers of the Jesuits in
Ethiopia ,1710
- Grammatica aethopica, 1702
- Seu Lexion Amharico Latinum Cum indice Latino,
1698
- Iobi Ludolfi alia's Leutholf ad suam
Historiam, 1681
- Sive, jubi Ludolfi I.C. lexicon aethiopico
Latinum, 1661
Some of our Ethiopian rare collections:
- A Life of Teklehaymanot in version of
Debralebanos and the Miracles of Teklehaymanot ... with
illuminated plates 1906.
- The miracle of the blessed virgin Mary and the
life of Hanna, with illuminated plates, 1661
- The lives of MabaSeyon and GebraKristos with
illuminated plates, 1898
