Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

PREFACE. XIII
Dr. C. F. August Dillmann, who had, from time
to time during the preparation of my work, afforded
me with characteristic kindness the benefit of his
unique knowledge and judgment in all matters
connected with Ethiopic literature. The published
works of this remarkable man, who was as learned
as he was great, and as modest as he was learned,
testify to the depth and breadth of his scholar-
ship and knowledge, and no amount of unworthy,
carping criticism will diminish aught of his universal
reputation, or alter the fact that every student
of this ofeneration owes whatever knowledge of
Ethiopic he may possess entirely to Dillmann's
lexicographical and grammatical labours.^
My thanks are due to the Marquess of Dufferin
and Ava, K. P. etc.. Her Britannic Majesty's Am-
bassador at Paris ; and
to Sir Thomas H. Sanderson,
K. C. B., K. C. M. G., Under Secretary of State;
and to Sir E. Maunde Thompson, K. C. B., Prin-
cipal Librarian of the British Museum; and to M.
Leopold Delisle, Administrator General of the
Bibliotheque Nationale, for their kind offices in
obtaining for me the loan of the Ethiopic MS.
containing Abu Shaker's life of Alexander and the
Vision of Abba Gerasimus. To Mr. A. S. Murray,
' See Baudissin's August Dillmann, Leipzig, 1895.