Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER,
BELONGING TO THE HOLY SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, [THE MERCIFUL], THE GRACIOUS.i The utle of
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WITH THE HELP OF GOD ALMIGHTY, AND WITH HIS GRACIOUS
GIFT, WE BEGIN TO WRITE THE TRAVELS OF ALEXANDER WHO
IS FAMOUS IN STORY. IT IS HE OF WHOSE HISTORY CERTAIN
LEARNED MEN HAVE WRITTEN PORTIONS AND BEHOLD, WE
WRITE ONTHE AUTHORITY OF THE SAGES WHO HAVE RECORD-
ED HIS JOURNEYINGS AND RULE IN THE SEVEN^ CLIMES OF
THE WORLD, AND HIS TRAVELS FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST,
AND HIS REIGN OVER [ALL] THE EARTH AND HIS MAR-
CHES UNTO THE VERY LIMITS THEREOF, AND HIS
VOYAGES ON THE SEA3 WHICH HAD NEVER
[BEFORE] BEEN CROSSED [BY ANY MAN], AND
HIS TRAVELS THROUGH THE AIR, AND
HIS ARRIVAL IN THE [LAND OF]
DARKNESS, AND HIS JOURNEYINGS
INTO PLACES WHITHER GOD
GAVE HIM KNOWLEDGE
TO GO, AND HIS
CHIEF ACTS AND
DEEDS.4
' /. e., the Arabic formula |0-:^3^l o-»-^P^ '*^^ ^"^
with which every work begins.
2 'La^~^\ a^^'ii\ of the Arabic geographers. The first
cHme includes the country of Babelj Khorasan, Persia, Ahwaz,
Mosul and the mountainous territory round about: its Zodiacal
signs are the Ram J..0.33JI and Sagittarius ^ysy\, and its planet