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 19th century Ethiopian manuscript with a Chronographic work and treatise on astronomy, with charts

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

Ref: OR 816
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_816

Provenance:
Stamped 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

What: An 18th century Ethiopian Chronicle of the Kings of Ethiopia

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

Ref: OR 820
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_820

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 Ethiopian manuscript dated 1851 containing a Compendium of History; Chronicles of Ethiopia

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

Ref: OR 821
Digital version – http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_821

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