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The study is aimed at providing definitions for important terms that have specialized meaning in the Ethiopian manuscript culture. Terms related with lemmatized entry are also given under the same entry and marked as synonyms. The entries are arranged alphabetically following the Latin alphabetical order.

The fascinating yet still underexplored world of manuscripts hailing from Southeast Asia, including the nation-state of Indonesia, has received some impetus in recent years, thanks to the new appreciation for this written heritage by state and non-state actors both within and without the country. Traditionally perceived as a dry (and hardly scientific or 'intellectual') subject that was the preserve of a small circle of specialist librarians, codicology (and Asian codicology in particular) has become a vibrant discipline, with several teams of scholars and projects worldwide focusing on manuscripts as objects, as well as on 'manuscript cultures'. These projects and approaches duly recognise the role of manuscripts (and not onlytexts) as prime carriers of cultural and civilisational values across time and space, as well as their relevance for the culture and identity of contemporary societies. This essay reviews some recent publications on Indonesian manuscripts catering to researchers as well as the wider public.

Manuscript libraries, the items collected in them, their location, and something of their history can be classified as follows (previous work on this subject was described in Lütfü Eroğiu's "Istanbul Kütüphaneleri"):
1.Ministry of Culture and Tourism's libraries under the auspices of the General Directorate of Libraries.2.Ministry of Culture and Tourism's libraries under the auspices of the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums.3.University libraries.4.Public libraries.5.Libraries under the auspices of the General Directorate of Foundations.6.Private libraries, such as those associated with banks or newspapers.