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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.

Publication Info. [United Kingdom] : Ashgate, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 231 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 109
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 109.
Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Annotation 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.
Contents Cover; foreword; contents; illustrations and maps; bibliography; abbreviations; part i: remarks about the itineraries; i background of ethiopia; ii iter f, from jerusalem, circa a.d. 1400; iii iter s, from cairo to barara, a.d. 1482; iv zorzi's iter i, from axum to cairo (anonymous); v zorzts iter ii, from barara to jerusalem (brother zorgi); vi zorzi's iter iii, from barara to cairo (brother raphael); vii zorzi's iter iv, from ugie and barara to mount sinai and jerusalem (brother thomas of ganget); viii the evidence of brother antonio of urvuar, and other matters.
IX THE EVIDENCE OF BROTHER THOMAS OF BARARAPART II: THE ZORZI ITINERARIES; Synopsis 1: ff. 25-28; Synopsis 2: f.28; Synopsis 3: ff. 29-32; Synopsis 4: ff. 33-34 (Iter I); Synopsis 5: ff. 35-38 (Iter II); Synopsis 6: ff. 38-40 (Iter III); Synopsis 7: ff. 41-44 (Iter IV); Synopsis 8: ff. 44-49; Synopsis 9: ff. 49-53 (Iter V and VI); Synopsis 10: ff. 55-58 (Iters VII and VIII); APPENDIX I: GAZETTEER OF NAMES ON FRA MAURO'S MAP; APPENDIX II: ASGADE AND THE HABAB TRIBE; APPENDIX III: AN ETHIOPIAN EMBASSY TO WESTERN EUROPE IN 13O6; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; l; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
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Subject Ethiopia -- Description and travel.
Ethiopia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope, 1886-1957.
Zorzi, Alessandro, 1747-1779.
Other Form: Print version: Crawford, O G S. Ethiopian Itineraries circa 1400-1524 : Including those Collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the Years 1519-24. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2011 9781409414759
ISBN 9781409417149 (electronic book)
140941714X (electronic book)
9781409414759