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Almeida's “History of Ethiopia”: Recovery of the Preliminary Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

E. Denison Ross
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Since the appearance of the last number of this Bulletin I have had the good fortune to find the outer cover of the King's College manuscript of Almeida's History of Ethiopia, which had hitherto been missing. The discovery is important, for attached to this cover there was not only the original title page, but also the “Preliminary Matter” referred to by Marsden in his Catalogue, occupying in all eleven folios. The contents are as follows:—

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , February 1923 , pp. 783 - 804
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1923

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page 783 note 1 The numbering of the folios which I adopted when the Preliminary Matter was still missing, and to which I have referred in my previous article, necessitates the numbering of these first eleven folios in Roman numerals.

page 783 note 2 Signor Beccari had already called attention to this reference on page xlix of his Introductio.

page 784 note 1 i.e. the quotation from Horace beginning: Humano capiti (see below, p. 806).

page 788 note 1 Cf. Commentarius Mongolica Legationis, ed. Hosten: Memoirs of the As. Soc. Bengal, 1914, pp. 518–704; and Vincent Smith: Akbar the Great Mogul, pp. 171 seq., 193 seq.

page 797 note 1 This section begins on fol. VIIα (fol. VIb being blank), and is written in the same hand as the main body of the history. It will be noted that the orthography differs from that of the Dedication and the Prologue which are written in a round hand, somewhat resembling that in which the First Appendix is written. The references to Book and Chapter at the end of each notice are in my opinion in the hand of Almeida himself.