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Cover image: Ethiopian community of Dayr al-Sultan in ca. 1905
Originally published in French as Le moine sur le toit: Histoire d’un manuscrit éthiopien trouvé à Jérusalem (1904) (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020).
This research and publication have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) (Open Jerusalem project, Grant Agreement No 337895) and from the Archival City project (I-Site Future, Université Paris-Est, 2019-2023).
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