The Prince and the Plunder

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

A manuscript including Samuel and Kings with a drawing of an angel (OR 488)

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What: An Ethiopian manuscript dated 1726 including the books of Samuel and Kings and an unfinished drawing of an angel

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

Ref: OR 488
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_488

Provenance:
Stamped at the front: “Presented by the Secretary of State for India Aug. 1868”
Listed as part of the “Magdala collection” in William Wright’s Catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1847

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