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Enrico Cebulli (ed. and tr.): Les vies éthiopiennes de Saint Alexis I'homme de Dieu. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vols. 298–9. Scriptores Aethiopici, Tom. 59–60.) 2 vols.: [iii], iv, 163 pp.; [iii], xviii, 115 pp. Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1969.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Edward Ullendorff
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 1971 , pp. 400 - 402
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References

1 cf. now also Segal, J. B., Edessa, Oxford, 1970, pp. 148, 173, 185, n. 7Google Scholar.

2 i.e. Gäbrä Krastos = Christodoulos = 'abd ai-masīḥ.

3 Preserved in the British Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, Accademia dei Lincei, and Berlin Staats-Bibliothek—as well as five MSS of the Cerulli Vatican collection (incidentally, Dr. Cerulli very kindly informs me that his catalogue of the series ‘Vaticano Cerulli Etiopico’ is now in the last stages of preparation).

4 Lives of Mäba ṣayon and Gäbrä Krǝstos, London, 1899Google Scholar. About the subsequent fate of the Lady Meux collection cf. Dr. Cerulli's catalogue of Ethiopic MSS in the Chester Beatty Library, No. 914 (Atti della Accad. Naz. dei Lincei, Memorie, Cl. Sci. mor., Ser. viii, Vol. xi, 6, 1965, 290–1)Google Scholar.

5 Dr. Cerulli has been good enough to let me know that two Arabic MSS of the ‘Life’ of St. Alexis (preserved at Rome) follow the tradition which locates St. Alexis in Rome rather than in Constantinople. To reach definite conclusions we would require a critical edition of the Arabic text collating all available Arabic MSS.

6 cf. Rahlfs, A. in Nachr. d. K Ges. d. Wiss. zu Gōttingen, Phil.-hist. Kl., 1917, 268–348Google Scholar. Wijnman, H. F., An outline of the development of Ethiopian typography in Europe, Leiden, Brill, 1960Google Scholar. The OUP used their Erpenius fount till 1965 when printing the present reviewer's Challenge of Amharic. For his Amharic chrestomathy and Ethiopia and the Bible they employed Stephen Austin's exceptionally fine ‘Monotype Amharic’.