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Ethiopia

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Ethiopia

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence: Andrew Carnegie with W. H. Ellis relating to the Emperor of Ethiopia (copies from the Carnegie Collection), 1903-1906; 1966

 File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/21/1
Scope and Contents Cover letter from Georpe Shepperson to F. Mann, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, dated 2 June 1966, concerning Shepperson's access to the correspondence between Andrew Carnegie and W. H. Ellis in the Carnegie Collection.1-23. Copy of File of Correspondence with Emperor Menelik of Ethiopa through various people'. Letters are mostly W. H. Ellis to Andrew Carnegie 1903–1906, and chiefly concern the authenticity of the original letter. 23 letters and 2 telegrams.24. Letter of...
Dates: 1903-1906; 1966
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 21
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Ethiopic Manuscripts Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2068
Scope and Contents This is a small yet significant collection of manuscripts in the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) script, comprising 12 items. These include devotional texts: Psalters, the New Testament, the Gospels, collections of prayers and stories of the Christian saints, all of which are parchment codices. It also includes three small protective scrolls, containing sections of devotional writings and illuminations.Many of these manuscripts are illuminated, the codices largely preserve their wooden board...
Dates: 18th-19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Colin Legum

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-693
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Margaret Melville Rae Martin MB ChB Edin., (1941-2005)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1541
Scope and Contents 3 x newspaper cuttings of Dr. Russell D. Martin on his wedding to Dr. Margaret Thomas 2 x photographs showing an elderly couple, and a house 1 x Birth Certificate, Margaret Melville Rae Martin 1 x Abbreviated Certificate of Birth, Margaret Melville Rae Martin 1 x autograph book with autograph signatures, 1953-1955 1 x certificate...
Dates: 1941-2001
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections