XXX Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 19–21 июня 2019 г. Т. 2

Секция XIX 254 XXX Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки B = London, British Library, Or. 818, ff. 48r-103r. Since that time, new witnesses to the text became available, and a new critical edition of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu has been considered a scholarly desideratum for at least the last decade. The first step in the preparation of a text-critical edition is gathering a dossier of all available witnesses to the text, either of direct or indirect tradition. Today four catalogued manuscripts contain the Chronicle of John of Nikiu . Jeremy Brown from the Catholic University in Washington, USA, discovered the fifth manuscript from the uncatalogued part of the EMML (Ethiopic Manuscript Microfilm Library) collec- tion (EMML 7919). A description of this manuscript is going to be published in the next issue of Aethiopica . The analysis of the list of uncatalogued manuscripts from the EMML collection gives hope of discovering further witnesses to the text. The existence of other manuscripts in Ethiopia, in the area of Gondar, is entirely possible as well. The author was told about this possibility by Hagos Abrha during the 20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Mekelle, Ethiopia in October 2018. The indirect tradition of the Chronicle transmission has not been deeply studied yet. The Chronicle served as a source for hagiographies of John Chrysostom and Cyril of Alexandria. The Vita of Cyril of Alexandria (preserved in at least four man- uscripts) starts with quoting the whole of Chapter 79 of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu . The Vita of John Chrysostom represents the indirect tradition of Chapter 84 of the Chronicle ’s text and is attested in at least eighteen manuscripts. Development of a multimedia research environment Beta ma ṣ ā ḥǝ ft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea provides an opportunity for searching for further indirect traditions of the text. In general, current dossier of the textual witnesses to the Chronicle of John of Nikiu , including its direct and indirect tradition, comprises at least twenty-seven manuscripts with some evidence for a possible extension of this dossier in the future. Alina Rinkanya (University of Nairobi, Kenya) Kenyan women’s literature for adolescent readers In an article published more than ten years ago in “The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies” the author of this paper was posing a question: “Is there literature for adolescents in Kenya?” In the article I was trying to show that in the beginning of the current century Kenyan literature for children, and especially adolescent readers, has only been making its first steps, going through the stage of formation. It should be noted, however, that within the last ten years Kenyan writing for chil- dren and adolescents has made enormous progress, presenting the public with hundreds of titles and dozens of writers. Among those a prominent place is held by the women authors, who target specific audiences: first, the children of a younger, pre-school and primary school age, and secondly, the adolescent readers—secondary and high-school girls. The latter stratum of Kenyan women’s writing is in the focus of this paper.