What: A 17th century copy of the four Gospels, including introductions and epistles, “slightly injured by water”
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 manuscripts
What: An early 18th century manuscript of the Pauline Epistles, the Apostolic Epistles, Acts, Revelation. “Contains extracts, in a later hand, from the Commentary of John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews ; and from a Commentary on 1st and 2nd Corinthians, in which Athanasius and John Chrysostom are cited.”
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 manuscripts
What: An 18th century manuscript of Acts and the Pauline Epistles, described as “much stained by water, and mutilated”.
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 manuscripts
What: A manuscript, dated A.D. 1654-55, including the second part of the Synaxarium, or Lives of the Saints, includes parts of two other manuscripts, one with part of a prayer, the other part of part of the Haimanota ‘Abaw. Its corresponding first half is OR 660.
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 manuscripts
What: A late 18th century manuscript including the first part of the Synaxarium, or Lives of the Saints. The second part is missing.
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 manuscripts
What: Described in the catalogue as “The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles”
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 manuscripts