M0008109: King Theodore's Bible, first folio

Previous title, replaced September 2020: King Theodores Bible, 1st folio.

Photograph of the first folio of the King Theodore's Bible, an Ethiopic manuscript written on vellum with a tooled leather binding, with script in red and black. 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: M0008107, M0008108, M0008110, M0008111, M0008112, M0008113, M0008114.

27 August 1941

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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