An edition of Historia Aethiopica (1681)

A new history of Ethiopia

Being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia, vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John. In four books. Wherein are contained I. An account of the nature, quality and condition of the country, and inhabitants; their mountains, metals and minerals; their rivers, (particularly of the source of the Nile and Niger;) their birds, beasts, amphibious animals, (as the river horse and crocodile;) serpents, &c. II. Their political government; the genealogy and succession of their Kings; a description of their court, and camp; their power and military discipline; their courts of justice, &c. III. Their ecclesiastical affairs; their conversion to the Christian religion, and the propagation thereof, their sacred writings, their sacraments, rites, ceremonies, and church discipline; the decrease of the romish religion, their contentions with the Jesuits, their separation from the Greek Church, &c. IV. Their private oeconomy, their books and learning; their co

By Hiob Ludolf