Astronomical treatise
Daria Elagina
Titles
- Astronomical treatiseen
- Cosmological treatiseen
General description
A cosmological treatise of a European provenance, possibly translated from a Latin textbook on astronomy by a Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia in the first half of the 17th century (). The text was believed to be transmitted only in one manuscript () employed in all three existing editions, however, Daria Elagina identified one further witness (London, British Library, BL Oriental 816). A preliminary comparison of the witnesses show some divergencies in readings.
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Witnesses
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Editions Bibliography
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Kračkovskij, I. 1912. ‘Iz ėfiopskoj geografičeskoj literatury ('Ethiopic geographic writings’)’, Hristianskij vostok, 1/2 (1912), 127–145.
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Frantsouzoff, S. A. 2015. ‘Pamjatniki ėfiopskoj pis’mennosti XI. Fragmenta geographorum aethiopicorum. Iz ėfiopskoj geograficeskoj literatury ('Ethiopic writings XI. Fragmenta geographorum aethiopicorum. Ethiopic geographical writings’)’, in I.Ju. Kračkovskij: Trudy po istorij i filologij Hristianskogo Vostoka, Klassiki otečestvennogo vostokovedenija (Moskva: Nauka - Vostočnaja literatura, 2015), 268–301.
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Hoffmann, C. and K. Geus 2020. ‘The Cosmological Treatise in Ms. Paris BnF Éth, Abb. 109: Introduction, Text and Translation with notes’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 4, 3<sup>a</sup> Serie (51) (2020), 61–87.
Editions Bibliography
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