Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

IV INTRODUCTION.
Description iv. Thc History of Alexander by Joseph ben-
Gorion is taken from a manuscript containing the
Ethiopia version of his "History of the Jews", pre-
served in the British Museum; see Orient. 822,
and Wright, Catalogue, p. 288, No. ccclxxviii. This
manuscript is of vellum, about 9)^ in. by S^, and
contains 136 leaves, and each page contains two
columns of 24 or 25 lines; it was probably written
in the XVIIth century.
V. The History of the Death of Alexander by
an anonymous writer is taken from a manuscript
preserved in the British Museum; see Add. 24,990,
and Wright, Catalogue, p. 12, No. xiii.
vi. The Christian Romance of the Life of
Alexander is taken from a manuscript preserved
in the British Museum; see Orient. 827, and
Wright, Catalogue, p. 294, No. cccxc. The variant
readings are taken from the Paris MS. No. 146;
see Zotenberg, Catalogue, p. 243 ff
vii. The History of the Blessed Men who lived
in the days of Jeremiah the prophet, and the
account of the Vision of Abba Gerasimus are
taken from the Paris MS. No. 146; see Zoten-
berg, Catalogue, p. 243.