Organization

Secção Profissional de Estudos do Património (Núcleo de Estudos Etíopes) da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa

Acknowledgments

To Dr. Tania Tribe, of the Art & Archaeology Department of SOAS-University of London, co-curator of the exhibition "The indigenous and the Foreign in Ethiopian Art and Architecture" (Brunei Gallery - SOAS, London, Jul-Sept 2004), for writing the text "The Jesuits and Ethiopian Art", included in this catalogue; and to Christopher Tribe, for revising the English translation of the Catalogue's texts.

To Dr. Assunção Vasconcelos, director of the Arquivo Distrital de Braga, for co-writing the text on the Jesuit manuscripts on Ethiopia, from the Archive of the Conde da Barca Braga ; and to Dr Henrique Barreto Nunes, director of the Biblioteca Pública de Braga, for housing the exhibition in the Medieval Room of the Rectory of the University of Minho, in Braga.

To the Department of Oriental Manuscripts of the British Library, to the Department of manuscripts of SOAS, and to Mr. Sam Fogg, for allowing the use of the images of Ethiopian art, and of books and maps, included in this catalogue.

To Dr. João Pedro Garcia, director of the International Service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for the sustained support of the research and the mounting of the exhibition, in London and in Braga; and to Dr. Jorge Molder, director of the Modern Art Centre of the same Foundation, for lending the infrastructure needed for the exhibition in Braga.