Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

DESCRIPTION OF THE ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPTS. Ill
il. The History of Alexander by Jirjis ibn al- Description
'Amid Abu'l-Yasir, more commonly known as Al- °
Makin, is taken from the MS. of his "Universal
"History" preserved in the British Museum; see
Orient. 813, and Wright, Catalogue of Ethiopic
MSS. in the British Museum, p. 293. This
manuscript is of vellum, about 13% in. by \\%,
and contains 1S8 leaves, and each page contains
three columns of 32 lines; it is written in a fine
hand of the XVIIth century. This handsome
manuscript originally belonged to one Kesada
Giyurgis, but it was found with hundreds of other
MSS. in the Treasury of King Theodore.
iii. The History of Alexander by Abu Shaker
Petrus, ibn Abi'l-Karam ibn al-Muhaddib, more
commonly known as Ibn al-Rahib or Walda Manakos,
is taken from a fine Ethiopic MS. (No. 46) in
the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris ; this MS. has
been fully described by Zotenberg, Catalogue des
MSS. £thiopiens, Paris, 1877, p. 243 ff ' The
British Museum possesses no copy of this extract,
for the MS. formerly numbered Orient. 8 1 9, written
in the reign of lyasu I., A. D. 1682— 1706, was
restored by the Trustees of the British Museum
to Prince Kasa, subsequently crowned as King
John, on the 14th of December, 1872; see Wright,
Catalogue, p. 297, No. cccxci.
' For Latin versions of Ibn al-Rahib's History see Abraham
Ecchellensis, Ckronico7i Orientale, Paris, 1651; and Asseraani,
J. S., Ch7-onicon Orientale Pet7-i Rahebi Egyptii, Venice, 1729.