The Prince and the Plunder

A book on how Britain took one boy and piles of treasures from Ethiopia

A 19th century Ethiopian manuscript containing a Compendium of History; Chronicles of Ethiopia (OR 821)

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What: An Ethiopian manuscript dated 1851 containing a Compendium of History; Chronicles of Ethiopia

Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB

Ref: OR 821
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_821

Provenance:
Stamped on first page: “Presented by the Secretary of State for India Aug. 1868”
Listed as part of the “Magdala collection” in William Wright’s Catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1847

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