Za'ijob Lodalf za'embhera garmanja 'eheta jebelewa 'alemana muzagaba qalate za-lesana gedeze : sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Lexicon Æthiopico-Latinum, ex omnibus libris impressis, nonnullisque manuscriptis collectum; et cum docto quodam Æthiope relectum. Accessit authoris Grammatica, cum aliis nonnullis, quorum catalogum sequens pagina exhibebit /

The first editions of three works published separately but simultaneously on the Ethiopian language. Composed by the German linguist Hiod Ludolf, his work essentially opened to the European world the cultural and linguistic world of ancient Ethiopia using their original texts. The first work is an E...

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Main Author:	Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704
Other Authors:	Claudius, Negus of Ethiopia, 1523?-1559, Wansleben, Johann Michael, 1635-1679, Roycroft, Thomas, -1677 (Printer)
Format:	Book
Language:	Latin Ethiopic
Published:	Londoni : Apud Thomam Roycroft, LL. Orientalium typographum Regium, MDCLXI [1661]
Subjects:	Ethiopic language > Dictionaries > Latin > Early works to 1800. Latin language > Dictionaries > Ethiopic > Early works to 1800. Ethiopic language > Grammar > Early works to 1800. Guèze (Langue) > Grammaire > Ouvrages avant 1800. Dictionaries.

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Summary:	The first editions of three works published separately but simultaneously on the Ethiopian language. Composed by the German linguist Hiod Ludolf, his work essentially opened to the European world the cultural and linguistic world of ancient Ethiopia using their original texts. The first work is an Ethiopian-Latin lexicon-dictionary, the second work covers grammar, and the third work includes extracts from ancient Ethiopian manuscripts, such a Confession of Faith and the Liturgy of St. Dioscorus of Alexandria.
Item Description:	"[Ethiopic script] sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Grammatica Æthiopica" and "Confessio fidei Claudii, Regis Æthiopiæ" each have separate dated title pages, and separate pagination and register. These may also have been issued separately as Wing L3466 and L3465. First 9 words of title in Ethiopic characters. Transliteration from the record of a copy in Merton College Library, Oxford. Includes index. Roman numeral date in imprint made with turned Cs. Title page in red and black.
Physical Description:	16 unnumbered pages, 560 columns, [44 unnumbered pages, 76 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (4to)
Place of Publication:	England -- London.