Hiob Ludolf, A New History of Ethiopia (1682)

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Date
1682
Author
Translator
Book title
A New History Of Ethiopia. Being A Full and Accurate Description Of The Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, though Erroneously called the Empire of Prester John. In Four Books
Publication place
London
Publisher
Samuel Smith
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • Ethiopian
  • travel
Summary
Chapter XV, "Of the various Languages us'd in Ethiopia, particularly of our Ethiopick, Erroneously call'd Chaldaic, in the last Century" (pp. 75-81), contains a fourteen-word Ethiopic-Amharic-Gallan-English vocabulary (p. 80)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Ethiopic. Amharic. Gallan. English.
....
Hubalte. Jaba Budeno. Bread. (p. 80)
Alston
XIV.246
Wing
L3468
Other editions
1661: Wing L3465-67 (all Latin);
1682: Wing L3468A;
1684: Wing L3469-70;
Sources
Historia Aethiopica