The Prince and the Plunder

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

A Book of the Funeral Ritual, lined with flowered silk (OR 552)

Published / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a Comment

What: , including Services for the Dead of various ages and ranks, with lessons. In the original boards, lined with flowered silk and covered with stamped leather.

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

Provenance: 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

Does not appear in British Library’s online catalogue or list of digitised manuscripts

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