Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

INTRODUCTION.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPTS
CONTAINING THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF
ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
i. The text of the Ethiopic version of the Pseudo-
Calllsthenes printed in this volume is edited from
a manuscript in the British Museum (Oriental 826), Description
which has been very briefly described by the late°
Prof Wright in his CatalogiLe of the Ethiopic
Mamiscripts in the British .Aluseum acquired since
the year 1847, London, 1877, p. 294, No. ccclxxxix.
It is of vellum, about \i% in. by 7%, and contains
148 leaves.' Each page contains two columns of
from 24 to 26 lines of bold v/riting. Parts of many
of the letters of the first few pages are effaced,
owing to the leaves having been pressed together
before the ink was dry. The first few words of
each section and the title are written in red, and
certain portions of the MS. seem to have been
copied by another hand. The MS. is bound in
stout wooden boards covered in leather stamped
with a cross and border formed of annules; the
' For an account of the finding of the MS. see the
English translation^ pp.
i, 2.