Wednesday, December 1, 2021

The Ethiopian Synaxarium


The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church. A translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium made from the manuscripts Oriental 660 and 661 in the British Museum. The publication of the Arabic text of the synaxarion of the Coptic Orthodox Church was started simultaneously by J. Forget in the Corp. script. orient. and by R. Basset in the Patrologia Orientalis, it was written using Coptic language before the adoption of Arabic as an official language of Egypt, and that of the Ethiopian synaxarion was begun by I. Guidi in the Patrologia orientalis. "Three hundred copies only of this work have been printed: of these two hundred and fifty are for sale." E. A. Wallis Budge, Kt. 4 vols. (Cambridge: University Press. 1928. Pp. lxxxvii, xviii, xvi, xviii + 1333. Price 63s. net.)

 

 

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