What: A scroll described as “a parchment strip of St. Mark’s Gospel”
Where: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
The catalogue entry has several pictures and describes it as “a Coptic parchment strip of St. Mark’s Gospel”.
Accession Number: KO0327/01a-a-i
What: A prayer scroll with three red-tinted pen drawings
Where: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL
The catalogue describes: “Prayers, charms and incantations for diseases and evil spirits: Manuscript”.
Label and date:
“Maqdala 1868 display, 5 April 2018 – 30 June 2019″
Museum number:
MSL/1869/187
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: Service book, containing psalms, biblical hymns, Song of Songs and praises of the Virgin Mary
Where: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL
The catalogue entry has several pictures and says it was from a church in Magdala and purchased from W.H. Saunders.
It describes a parchment book of 150 leaves with 18 coloured head-pieces and a leather carrying case.
NAL accession number: MSL/1869/185
Object number: 38041800153454 (book); 38041800156218 (case)
What: A roll of parchment inscribed and painted with figures, more than two metres long
Where: Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3PP
The catalogue entry has six pictures and describes: a “roll of parchment incribed in Amharic and painted with figures. Similar to other charms/amulets worn either on the person or on horses as protection from diseases.”
The base of the glass-topped box in which the object is currently kept is inscribed: “Long Himyaritic charm-roll, ABYSSINIA. Found at MAGDALA, 13 April, 1868. E.B. Tylor. Pres. by Lady Tylor, 1917”.
The Accession Book entry says it was part of the collection of the anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, D.C.L., F.R.S.
It is not clear whether Tylor was on the expedition – his name does not appear to be mentioned in the official accounts – or whether he acquired the scroll from someone who was.
Detail
1917.53.652
Dimensions: L = 2170 mm W = 75 mm
What: An illuminated manuscript page
Where: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
The catalogue entry has a picture and reads: “Brought back from Abyssinia by General Sir E R P Woodgate.”
Accession Number: KO LIB 136/2.