The Prince and the Plunder

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

Category: The Plunder

Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings (OR 802)

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What: A copy of the Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings, “written in a fine hand, between 1708 and 1711”. “On f. 138 b are lists of lands, in Amharic.”

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

Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings (OR 803)

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What: An copy of the Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings, dated 1681. F. 149 a is a leaf from another, unfinished, manuscript of the Feika Nagast corresponding to f. 147 of this copy.

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

Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings (OR 805)

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What: An 18th century copy of the Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings. “It belonged at one time to the ‘Echage Walda Maryam, who gave it at his death to the chief priest of the church of Takla Haimanot.”

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

Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings (OR 807)

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What: A copy of the Fetha Nagast, or Justice of Kings, dated 1835. “In the original boards, covered witli stamped leather and lined with flowered cloth.”

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

Abu Shaker’s Chronology (OR 810)

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What: A copy of Abu Shaker’s Chronology, “well written, between 1721 and 1730”. “On f. 2 a, in a later hand, we find ‘the Degrees of the Sufferings of our Lord’.”

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

Abu Shaker’s Chronology (OR 811)

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What: A copy of Abu Shaker’s Chronology, “apparently written in 1755”.

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