What: A manuscript from Magdala
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.213
Description: Manuscript written in Ge’ez on parchment in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893
What: A manuscript from Magdala
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.214
Description: Manuscript written in Ge’ez on parchment in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893
What: A “manuscript paper”
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Description/notes: There are other cases where individual pages were torn out of larger manuscripts – see the pages taken out of an edition of “The Miracles of Mary” in Scotland’s National Archives.
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture. An earlier version described it as a “manuscript paper”.
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.215
Description: Manuscript in Ge’ez written on both sides in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893
What: Parchment scroll
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no pictures
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1968.381
Description: Manuscript parchment in scroll form, written in Ge’ez: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Magdala, early 19th century
Acquisition source: Anonymous
What: Scroll bought back by the 4th regiment
Where: Southwark’s Cuming Museum, 211 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JA
According to the catalogue entry, it is “a scroll of rolled cloth, from a Hegab or charm bracelet. It is inscribed with a passage from the Koran”. It said it was “brought to England by the 4th regiment in 1868”.
Details
Dimensions: 250 x 80 x 40 mm
Object number: C05286
What: A letter from Tewodros
Where: Previously Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, now unknown
A letter, described as “from Tewodros”, that was listed in the museum’s catalogue as recently as January, 2018, but the entry has since disappeared.
Here is the original catalogue entry, though the link is now dead:
Object number 4901.39
Letter written in two scripts – one probably Amharic and other Arabic – mounted on card, 14″x 10″, dated 1865. Letter from King? Tewodros to Jaffa, 13.3.1867