What: An Ethiopian manuscript, dated 1696, of the Fetha Nagast legal code and part of the Christian treatise Didascalia Apostolorum. Described as having “beautiful and even script” throughout
Where: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, Potsdamer Straße 33, Westhafenstraße 1, Berlin
What: An Ethiopian manuscript dated 1750 including prayers, prescriptions and the Mäṣhafä Mädḥanit directory of medicinal plants, with more than 200 illustrations of “magical pictures, squares and lines of magical and talismans”. A small vellum leaf is bound in ff.6-7 containing a magical formula for changing into a lion or another beast
Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
What: An 18th century Ethiopian strip of parchment, folded like a concertina, with three miniatures, prayers and prescriptions and a note on the back mentioning Magdala
Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
What: An Ethiopian manuscript taken from Magdala
Where: The University of Bonn, University and State Library, Adenauerallee 39-41, 53113 Bonn
What: An Ethiopian manuscript of Genesis, described as c. 1500, with illustrations including “quails in the land of milk and honey”.
Where: Boston College, Law Library, The Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room, 885 Centre Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02459
What: Described as “Ethiopic [religious] text with slight rubrication, end decoration and illustrated miniatures consisting of faces, eyes, saltire crosses, cross, 1090x71mm, rolled vellum.”
Where: Trinity College Library – Dublin