M0008107: King Theodore's Bible

Date:
27 August 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/70/13
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Credit

M0008107: King Theodore's Bible. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: King Theodores Bible, 3/4 view.

Description

Photograph of the King Theodore's Bible, an Ethiopic manuscript written on vellum with a tooled leather binding in 8 volumes. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at auction in 1930 for £180 (accession number 62892). In 1942 the item was given by the Museum to Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie. Related images: M0008108, M0008109, M0008110, M0008111, M0008112, M0008113, M0008114.

Publication/Creation

27 August 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a photographic print of the image, along with information about the return of the item to Ethiopia: WA/HMM/CO/Sub/3

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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