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The manuscript roomA scribe at workSt Mark, Garima Gospels, Abba Garima Monastery, Tǝgray, c. 390–660 CE.Ethiopian Heritage Fund · public domain ↗

Ancient landscapeAksumThe stelae field of the Aksumite capital, where carved stone still holds the scale of the ancient kingdom.Photograph by A. Savin · Free Art License 1.3 ↗

Royal portraitLəbnä DəngəlA posthumous portrait of Dawit II (Ləbnä Dəngəl), painted for the Giovio portrait series in the sixteenth century.Cristofano dell’Altissimo, after the Giovio prototype · public domain ↗

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From the manuscript roomIlluminated detail from አብቀለምሲስ — The Revelation of St John, British Library, Or 533.Explore the complete digitised manuscript at the British Library ↗

Places & painted memory

Four windows onto Habesha history

The northern stelae field at Aksum beneath a blue sky. — Ancient landscape

The manuscript roomPortrait of St MarkSt Mark, Ethiopian Gospels from Gunda Gunde, first half of the sixteenth century.Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.850, fol. 60v · CC0 ↗

Royal cityGondarThe palaces of Fasil Ghebbi, the fortified heart of the Gondarine court and its seventeenth-century world.Photograph by A. Savin · Free Art License 1.3 ↗

Aksum

The stelae field of the Aksumite capital, where carved stone still holds the scale of the ancient kingdom.

Photograph by A. Savin · Free Art License 1.3 ↗

Royal portraitLəbnä DəngəlA posthumous portrait of Dawit II (Ləbnä Dəngəl), painted for the Giovio portrait series in the sixteenth century.Cristofano dell’Altissimo, after the Giovio prototype · public domain ↗

Stone towers and crenellated walls within Fasil Ghebbi at Gondar. — Royal cityGondarThe palaces of Fasil Ghebbi, the fortified heart of the Gondarine court and its seventeenth-century world.Photograph by A. Savin · Free Art License 1.3

Ethiopian manuscript painting showing a gunman firing at Emperor Iyasu I as he reclines on a bed. — Royal chronicleThe assassination of Iyasu IThe murder of the Gondarine emperor Iyasu I in 1706, painted in a nineteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript from Tigray.Photo: Michael Gervers · courtesy of the DEEDS project

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Royal chronicle

The assassination of Iyasu I

The murder of the Gondarine emperor Iyasu I in 1706, painted in a nineteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript from Tigray.

Photo: Michael Gervers · courtesy of the DEEDS project ↗