World's first illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:33 PM on 5th July 2010
The world's earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery.
世界最早的插圖基督教書籍已被一英國慈善機構保全，它座落在一遙遠的埃塞俄比亞寺院。
The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century and is said to have copied them out in just one day.
令人難以置信的尕日瑪福音是命名在一個修道士後，他在15世紀來到那非洲國家，和據說在一天內已將它們複製。
Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved.
精美的插圖，色彩依然鮮豔和感謝埃塞俄比亞遺產基金已作保存。
Abba Garima arrived from Constantinople in 494 AD and legend has it that he was able to copy the gospels in a day because God delayed the sun from setting.
阿爸尕日瑪在494 AD從君士坦丁堡抵達和有傳說他能夠在一天內複製福音，因為上帝延遲日落。
A page from the Garima Gospels - the world's oldest Christian book found in a remote monastery in Ethiopia
從尕日瑪福音的一頁 - 世界上最古老的基督教書籍發現在埃塞俄比亞的偏遠修道院
The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of the country, which is in the Tigray region at 7,000 feet.
令人難以置信的遺跡一直被保持在該國北部近阿杜瓦的尕日瑪寺，那是7000呎在提格雷區。
Experts believe it is also the earliest example of book binding still attached to the original pages.
專家們相信它是最早的厚皮書例子，仍附在原頁。
The survival of the Gospels is incredible considering the country has been under Muslim invasion, Italian invasion and a fire in the 1930s destroyed the monastery's church.
福音的生存是難以置信的，考慮到該國經歷過穆斯林的入侵、意大利入侵和在20世紀 30年代一場火災摧毀過修道院的教堂。
They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge'ez.
它們是被寫在山羊皮上，以早期埃塞俄比亞語言吉茲。
There are two volumes which date from the same time, but the second is written in a different hand from the first. Both contain illustrations and the four Gospels.
那裡有兩冊，日期是同一時間，但第二冊是由與第一冊不同的手寫成，兩冊都含有插圖和四福音。
Though the texts had been mentioned by the occasional traveller since the 1950s, it had been thought they dated from the 11th century at the earliest.
雖然文本自1950年代以來已被偶爾的旅行者提及，它一直被認為它們的最早日期是來自 11世紀。
Carbon dating, however, gives a date between 330 and 650 - which tantalisingly overlaps the date Abba Garima arrived in the country.
但是碳測年份給出日期是330和650之間 - 這強烈誘惑地日期是重疊阿爸尕日瑪抵達該國的日子。
So the first volume could be in his hand - even if he didn't complete the task in a day as the oral tradition states.
The charity Ethiopian Heritage Fund that was set up to help preserve the treasures in the country has made the stunning discovery.
It was also allowed incredibly rare access to the texts so experts could conserve them on site.
The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of Ethiopia
令人難以置信的遺跡一直被保持在埃塞俄比亞北部近阿杜瓦的尕日瑪寺院
It is now hoped the Gospels will be put in a museum at the monastery where visitors will be able to view them.
Blair Priday from the Ethiopian Heritage Fund said: 'Ethiopia has been overlooked as a source of these fantastic things.
'Many of these old Christian relics can only be reached by hiking and climbing to remote monasteries as roads are limited in these mountainous regions.
'All the work on the texts was done in situ and everything is reversible, so if in future they can be taken away for further conservation we won't have hindered that.
'The pages had been crudely stitched together in a restoration in the 1960s and some of the pages wouldn't even turn. And they were falling to pieces.
'The Garima Gospels have been kept high and dry which has helped preserve them all these years and they are kept in the dark so the colours look fresh.
'This was the most astounding of all our projects and the Patriarch, the head of the Ethiopian Church, had to give his permission.
'Most of the experts did the work for nothing.
'We are currently undertaking other restoration programmes on wall paintings and religious texts.
'We believe that preserving Ethiopia's cultural heritage will help to increase visitor revenue and understanding of the extraordinary history of this country
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