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Ethiopian itineraries, circa 1400-1524

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Zorzi's Italian text with translation by C. A. Ralegh Radford. Includes a gazetteer for Fra Mauro's map. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1958.

Title Ethiopian itineraries, circa 1400-1524 : including those collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the years 1519-24 / edited by O.G.S. Crawford.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge
Creation Date 2019
Notes "Translated into English by ... Ralegh Radford"--Foreword.
Reprint of Ethiopian itineraries circa 1400-1524 : including those collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the years 1519-24 / edited by O.G.S. Crawford. Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1958.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents: Foreword
Bibliography
Remarks About the Itineraries: Background of Ethiopia
Iter F, from Jerusalem, circa AD 1400
Iter S, from Cairo to Barara AD 1482
Zorzi's Iter I, from Axum to Cairo (anonymous)
Zorzi's Iter II, from Barara to Jerusalem (Brother Zorgi)
Zorzi's Iter III, from Barara to Cairo (Brother Raphael)
Zorzi's Iter IV, from Ugie and Barara to Mount Sinai and Jerusalem (Brother Thomas of Ganget)
The evidence of Brother Antonio of Urvuar and other matters
The evidence of Brother Thomas of Barara. The Zorzi Itineraries, with English translation by C.A. Ralegh Radford: Synopsis
Appendices
Index.
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society
2nd ser., no. 109
Extent xxix, 231 p. : ill., facsim., maps (some folded).
Language English
National Library system number 997010706172505171
MARC RECORDS
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