The Prince and the Plunder

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

Author: Andrew Heavens

Including Gannat or ‘History of the Fathers’ (OR 766)

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What: An 18th century manuscript of Gannat, or ‘History of the Fathers’. A later hand has added the names of the months in different languages, also the distribution of the races springing from the sons of Noah, and another later hand has added the ‘Comparison of the Lights of Heaven’.

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 manuscript

Gannat or ‘History of the Fathers’, a hymn and part of a prayer (OR 765)

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What: An early 18th century manuscript of Gannat, or ‘History of the Fathers’. Includes a hymn to the Christian Church and part of another manuscript including part of a prayer.

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 manuscript

Philoxenus on the Paradise of Palladius (OR 761)

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What: An 18th century manuscript of “Philoxenus, bishop of Mabug or Manbij. This is the first part of a series of questions and answers on the ‘History of the Egyptian Fathers'”.

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 manuscript

Aragawi Manfasawi; Philoxenus of Mabug on the History of the Egyptian Fathers; Mar Isaac (OR 759)

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What: A late 17th century or early 18th century manuscript of Aragawi Manfasawi; Philoxenus of Mabug on the “History of the Egyptian Fathers”; Mar Isaac

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 manuscript

An early 18th century manuscript of the works of ‘Mar Isaac’ (OR 756)

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What: An 18th century manuscript of the book of ‘Mar Isaac’.

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 manuscript

An 18th century manuscript of the book of ‘Mar Isaac’ (OR 755)

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What: An 18th century manuscript of the book of ‘Mar Isaac’. “Written in a fair hand.”

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 manuscript