What: A sacramental spoon Where: Unknown Description: An ornate spoon with depiction of crucifixion on the handle sketched by William Simpson, an artist and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. on Britain’s Abyssinian Expedition in 1868. A note on the page reads: “Sacramental Spoon from Magdalla, 20th April 1868” Sources: Page 23 of one of two sketchbooks […]
What: A processional cross Where: Unknown Description: One of three processional “Abyssinian crosses” sketched by William Simpson, an artist and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. on Britain’s Abyssinian Expedition in 1868. A note on the page reads: “Abyssinian Crosses sent by W.S.A. Lochhart to his father at Carluke, Scotland” Sources: Page 59 of one of two […]
What: A processional cross Where: Unknown Description: One of three processional “Abyssinian crosses” sketched by William Simpson, an artist and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. on Britain’s Abyssinian Expedition in 1868. A note on the page reads: “Abyssinian Crosses sent by W.S.A. Lochhart to his father at Carluke, Scotland” Sources: Page 59 of one of two […]
What: A processional cross Where: Unknown Description: One of three processional “Abyssinian crosses” sketched by William Simpson, an artist and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. on Britain’s Abyssinian Expedition in 1868. A note on the page reads: “Abyssinian Crosses sent by W.S.A. Lochhart to his father at Carluke, Scotland” Sources: Page 59 of one of two […]
The Zemen Collection of Ethiopian Manuscripts. A collection of 108 partly illuminated codices, comprising various biblical texts, gospels, lectionaries and prayer books and 4 so-called magic scrolls. Ethiopia and Egypt, late 18th to early 20th century. A total of 108 manuscripts in classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez) on vellum, of which about a third are illuminated with distinctive […]
MS 380734 ‘Chronicle of Ethiopia’ Ge’ez (Ethiopic) manuscript. The ms. begins ‘Laws and statutes of the Kingdom brought from Jerusalem by Ebna Hakim or Menyelek, son of Solomon’, which is the opening chapter of ‘Chronicles of Ethiopia’ compiled AD 1784 by order of Dajarmach Hailu… 18th century MS 380735 ‘Commentary on the Gospel of Saint […]