The Prince and the Plunder

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

A manuscript including an Ethiopic-Amharic vocabulary, with note linking it to the Abyssinian campaign (OR 9798)

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What: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript containing an Ethiopic-Amharic vocabulary, poems, a calendar for the movable feasts and an Amharic explanation of the Creed, with a note linking it to Britain’s 1867-8 Abyssinian Campaign

Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB

A 19th century Missal written during the reign of Tewodros, with two pages torn out (OR 548)

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What: A 19th century Ethiopian Misssal ” written during the reign of king Theodore (A.D. 1855—68), when Demetrius was patriarch of Alexandria, and Salama III. ‘abuna of Ethiopia”. Leaves torn out after ff. 66 and 69; imperfect at the end.

Where: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB