The Prince and the Plunder

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

Fragment of Bible ‘found’ near Senafe (Or. 2273)

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What: A fragment of a Bible “found” near the British mssion’s camp of Senafe by a Mr. J.T.C. Prince and presented to Baron van Heemstra van Froma en Eibersburen Where: Leiden University Libraries Listed in Inventory of the oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden – part 3: manuscripts Or. 2001-Or. 3000 […]

Arabic manuscript ‘found’ in Maqdala (Or. 1924)

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What: An Arabic manuscript found by a Mr. J.F.E. Prince “in the camp of the emperor Theodorus II in Magdala” Where: Leiden University Libraries Listed in the Inventory of the oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden – part 2: manuscripts Or. 1001-Or. 2000 Or. 1924Arabic, paper, 104 ff., dated 1257 AH […]