PHOTO PRINT "GOSPEL BOOK OF KRESTOS TASFANA," THE ORIGINAL OF WHICH DATES BACK TO THE 12th CENTURY,
written in Gəʿəz, preserved in the Dabra Hayq Estifanos monastery, located on Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bazen, the magus, is mentioned as bringing the myrrh. Illustration taken from the book “African Zion: The Sacred Art in Ethiopia” published by Yale University Press, in 1993
(USA, 20th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
All along the Blue Nile, several monasteries keep precious manuscripts dated from the 13th and 14th centuries evoking this illustrious King of the Kings of Aksum who left for Jerusalem at the time of the Nativity.