The Prince and the Plunder

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

An 18th Ethiopian collection of Hymns entitled Egziabher Nags (OR 567)

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What: An 18th Ethiopian collection of Hymns entitled እግዚአብሔር ነግሠ, Egziabher Nägś and the Saints’ Days of the whole year, arranged according to the Synaxarium

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

Ref: OR 567
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_567

Provenance:
Stamped on the 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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