The Queen of Sheba & her only son Menyelek : being the history of the departure of God & his Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to Ethiopia, and the establishment of the religion of the Hebrews & the Solomonic line of kings in that country : a complete translation of the Kebra nagast with introduction /. by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge.
Sir Edward Alfred Wallis Budge (1857-1934)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220666
Summary
Bibliographic description
xc, 241, [1] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 23 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: publisher's burgundy cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Alfred Wallis Budge (1857-1934)