What: A service book with hymns and prayers arranged for the hours, including coloured images of: Daniel in the lion’s den, St. George and the dragon, Virgin and child with angels and a priest, Täklä Haymanot and the dragon, and the crucifixion.

Where: Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

The library has scanned in the pages here – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-03682/1

Provenance: According to the catalogue page: William Simpson, an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, bought it from an Ethiopian during the Napier Expedition as the troops returned to Aden after the defeat of Tewodros II: “This book of Devotion, 350 or 400, years old, I bought from an Abyssinnian [sic], at the tent door, during the return march from Magdala, 1868”.