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

Ref: OR 11390
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11390

Provenance:
A note on f. 3r reads “belonging to the Church of the Saviour of the World’ at Magdala”
A note on the first page reads: “Bought of Mr De Vere Crossley, 28 Aug. 1933”

What: A 17th century Ethiopian manuscript of a History of the Jews, ascribed to Joseph ben Goryon

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

Ref: OR 822
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_822

Provenance:
Stamped on first page: “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

What: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript of a History of the Jews, ascribed to Joseph ben Goryon

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

Ref: OR 823
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_823

Provenance:
Stamped near 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

What: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript of a History of the Jews, ascribed to Joseph ben Goryon, with writing on the fly-leaves

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

Ref: OR 824
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_824

Provenance:
Stamped on inside cover: “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