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: Drawings of St George and the Dragon , the Virgin and Child, Christ and His Disciples, in Gethsemane, Christ scourged, Christ mocked, the Crucifixion and Taking Down from the Cross, likely taken from a manuscript
Where: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL
The catalogue entry reads: “This drawing was brought from the Emperor Theodore’s Palace at Magdala on its destruction by the Abyssinian Expedition, 1868. Purchased from Mr McNaughton, 4 Oct 1920.”
Museum number:
E.3937-1920
What: A “manuscript album”
Where: Unknown
One of 21 artefacts from the Abyssinian expedition put on show at the National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds in 1868
According to the exhibition’s catalogue, it was lent by H.D. (or J.D.) Birchall, Esq. of Leeds. There are no details on what happened to it after the show closed in October that year.
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868 : official catalogue
What: A vellum manuscript with illuminations
Where: Unknown
One of 21 artefacts from the Abyssinian expedition put on show at the National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds in 1868
According to the exhibition’s catalogue, it was lent by H.D. (or J.D.) Birchall, Esq. of Leeds. There are no details on what happened to it after the show closed in October that year.
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868 : official catalogue