What: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript containing an Ethiopic-Amharic vocabulary, poems, a calendar for the movable feasts and an Amharic explanation of the Creed, with a note linking it to Britain’s 1867-8 Abyssinian Campaign

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

Ref: OR 9798
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9798

Provenance:

An indistinct note written in the central division between the two columns of text of the first page mentions a Captain Edwards from a Light Cavalry Regiment at Abyssinia in 1867-8

A note in the front pages reads:”Bought of Mr. S. Rowley. 22 May, 1927″