Ethiopia

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 bindings and...

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 in...

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...