Dǝrsān za-bǝṣuʿ Fisālgos
Massimo Villa
Titles
- ድርሳን፡ ዘብጹዕ፡ ፊሳልጎስ፡gez (Dǝrsān za-bǝṣuʿ Fisālgos gez, Homily of the blessed Physiologus en)
- short: Phys. α (Dǝrsān za-bǝṣuʿ Fisālgos , ድርሳን፡ ዘብጹዕ፡ ፊሳልጎስ፡ gez, Phys. α )
General description
The so-called α-recension of the Ethiopic Physiologus. Possibly the earliest and most conservative of the surviving textual stages, it includes 49 chapters, arranged and numbered according to the Greek.
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Work of the literatures of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Editions Bibliography
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Hommel, F. 1877. Die aethiopische Uebersetzung des Physiologus nach je einer Londoner, Pariser und Wiener Handschrift, herausgegeben, verdeutscht und mit einer historischen Einleitung versehen, ed., tr. F. Hommel (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1877).
Editions Bibliography
Translation Bibliography
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Hommel, F. 1890. ‘Die äthiopische Physiologus’, Romanische Forschungen, 5 (1890), 13–36.
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Conti Rossini, C. 1951. ‘Il Fisiologo etiopico’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 10 (1951), 5–51 (DOI: 10.2307/41460258). page 16-51
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Sumner, C. 1982. The Fisalgwos, Ethiopian Philosophy, 5 (Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press, 1982). page 9-65
Translation Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Weninger, S. 2005. ‘Fisalgos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 549b–550a.
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