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Manuscript from Magdala

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What: A manuscript from Magdala

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.213
Description: Manuscript written in Ge’ez on parchment in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893

Manuscript from Magdala

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What: A manuscript from Magdala

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.214
Description: Manuscript written in Ge’ez on parchment in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893

Manuscript paper

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What: A “manuscript paper”

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Description/notes: There are other cases where individual pages were torn out of larger manuscripts – see the pages taken out of an edition of “The Miracles of Mary” in Scotland’s National Archives.

Sources:

The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture. An earlier version described it as a “manuscript paper”.

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.215
Description: Manuscript in Ge’ez written on both sides in black and red ink: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893