The Prince and the Plunder

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

A manuscript including the Life of Fasiladas (OR 708)

Published / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a Comment

What: An Ethiopian manuscript dated 1800 containing the Acts of Fasiladas, a miracle and a hymn

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

Ref: OR 708
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_708

Provenance:
Stamped inside the cover: “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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