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A49450	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 ... : illustrated with copper plates / by ... Job Ludolphus ... ; made English, by J.P., Gent.; Historia Aethiopica. English	Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704.; J. P., Gent.	1682 (1682)	Wing L3468; ESTC R9778	257,513	339

was any such thing either written or said by any Person of Credit CHAP. II. Of the Books and Learning of the Ethiopians Books not holy reckon'd Ethiopic Their Studies what No written Laws Lamentable Physicians Nor better Philosophers Of the mixture of the Elements in Humane Bodies They hold two Souls In Mathematicks not absurd They love Poetry but only Divine all in Rhime various sorts Riddles and Proverbs Desirous of the Latine The Fathers would not teach them Arabic frequent Their Epistolary Style BEsides Sacred Books the Habessines have but very few others For the Story of (f) Vrreta did not think worth while to tell so modest an untruth The most celebrated Libraries saith he that ever had Renown were nothing in respect of Presbyter John's the Books are without Number richly and artificially bound Many to which Solomon's and the Patriarchs Names are Affixt Godignus explodes him l. 1. c. 17. Yet Gallesius in his late Discourse concerning Libraries averrs the same and adds That Chancellor Seguiers Library contains more Books than any Ethiopic Library Barratti who chatters of a Library containing Ten Thousand Volumes 't is altogether vain and frivolous Some few we had an Account of One call'd the Glory of Kings already mention'd I know not whether it be that of which Tellez Writes because it is of high Authority among the Habessines and as it were a Second Gospel and preserv'd in the Pallace of Axuma In that is Recorded the History of the Queen of Sheba and others to which the Habessines give great Credit A Chronicle cited by King Claudius in his Confession of Faith The Book of Philosophy much esteem'd in Ethiopia The Ladder a Vocabulary in that the most difficult words are Expounded in Amharic and Arabic but very unfortunately and perversly As the following Example about Gemms will Testifie It was sent me by Gregory The Jasper in the Pentateuch and Apocalyps in the Arabic the Colour of it is White and Red. The Saphyr in the Pentateuch and Apocalyps in Arabic The Colour of it is like a burning Cole he meant the Carbuncle now call'd the Ruby They meddle with no Studies but those of their own Learned Language and Sacred Matters Most believe they have enough if they can but Read and Write and that either the Parents teach their Children to do or else certain of their Monks for a small stipend They have no written Laws Justice and Right is determined by Custom and the Examples of their Ancestors and most differences are ended by the Will of the Judge Their manner of Administring Physick is most Deplorable They Cure Men by cutting and burning as they do Horses They cure the Yellow Jaundies by applying a hot burning Iron in manner of a Semicircle toward the upper end of the Arm laying a little Cotton upon the Wound that the Humour may issue forth so long as the Disease remains In most Distempers every Person is his own Physitian and uses such Herbs as he learnt were useful from his Parents Some are of Opinion that it is not a Pin matter whether they make use of Physitians or Apothecaries or no not believing it worth their while to be recover'd at so great Expences If the King be sick they come to him ask him as if it were out of pity What he ayles and what is his Distemper And if any one have been ill of the same Distemper he tells what did him good deeming the same Remedies applicable to all Constitutions If a Pestilence chance to break out they leave their Houses and Villages and retire with their Heards into the Mountains putting all their Security in flying from the Contagion Tertian Agues they Cure by applying the Cramp-fish to the Patient which is an unspeakable Torture Wounds they Cure by the help of Myrrhe which is very plentiful among them I have not as yet ever seen the Treatise of Philosophy which I mention'd at the beginning of the Chapter but it appears by the Theological Disputations of their Divines that they are none of the Acutest Logicians nor have they any knowledge of Natural Philosophy as is apparent to any one that reads their Books concerning the mixture of the Four Elements in the Creation of Man as also concerning the Soul the Author of the Organum gives this accompt God made a Miracle when he Created our Father Adam and Formed him of the Four Elements he mixed the Elements yet so that they should not disagree among themselves the First with the Second and the Third with the Fourth he mix'd the dry with the Moist and the Hot with the Cold the Visible with the Invisible the Palpable with the Impalpable He made Two out of the Palpable and Two out of the Impalpable He made Three of the Dry and One of the Moist He made Three out of the Visible and One out of the Invisible The great Architect knew where the Inner Chamber was to be Seated and plac'd the Corners of the House in the Four Elements and understanding that a vessel of Clay could not move nor speak without the mixture of a Spirit that must come from Himself therefore he Breath'd upon his Face and made him Rational and Self-moving as saith the most Holy Law He Breath'd into the Face of Adam the breathing place of Life and he became Man by the Breath of Life Therefore the Soul dies not with the Body for that proceeding out of the Mouth of the Lord it was mixt with the Body as saith our Lord in the Gospel Fear not those who kill the Body but cannot kill the Soul Now as to what he said Thou shalt not kill the Soul be spoke concerning the sensitive Soul because there are two Souls in Man one the Spirit of Life which proceeded out of the Mouth of God not reckon'd among the Elements and which never dyes The other is the Blood of the Body that is to say the Sensitive Soul which has its Original from the Elements and that is Morral Wherefore God said Thou shalt not eat the Flesh with the Blood because the Blood is the Sensitive Soul But the Pillar of the House of God is the Spirit of Life Now after the Spirit of Life is departed the Body becomes a Carcass therefore the Law pronounc'd the Carcass Unclean because the Spirit of Life is departed from it But among us we reckon the Dead Body of a Christian to be clean because the Human Body was mix'd with the Blood of Divinity besides that the Grace of Baptism departs not from it and concerning the Carcass of the Son of the Virgin David said They cast away their Brother as an unclean Carcass That is they did not understand it to be holy because the Jews were his Brethren in respect of his Mother and by their Law the Carcass was reputed unclean It is to be wondred that the Habessines who cannot understand two Natures in Christ united in one Existence should find out two Souls in the body of Man And yet

it is no wonder when we consider that there are some who imagine Three Souls in Man whereas they might feign a great many more should they but take every Animal Faculty for a Soul But these and such like Conceptions admit of Excuse and Interpretation though what the vulgar believe concerning the Fabrick of the World are altogether absurd and not worth relating viz. That the Earth is a round Globe and pendent in the middle of the Air this they look upon as a meer Fable What think ye they would say should any one teach them that the Planets are Animals and instead of the Sun that stands still always walking the rounds of the Heavens Or assert the Antipodes to them with their Feet upwards and their Heads downwards and yet keeping a steady Motion certainly they would think that such people would necessarily drop into Heaven though as to this we are not to deride their Ignorance in regard several Holy and Grave Men have deny'd the Antipodes nevertheless they most idly dream that when the Sun rises and sets he goes and comes again through a certain kind of Window but which way he gets under the Earth they are not very sollicitous about and yet in this they seem much wiser than Mahomet the great Prophet of the Mussel-men who fancy'd That the Sun went to sleep in a Well Gregory was taken for a very great Philosopher in his Country for that he had made a certain Convex Model of Pastboard like the Arch of Heaven to the inside of which he fastned several graines of Wheat to represent the Stars of the First Magnitude and then turn'd the Concavity uppermost to shew how the Heavens mov'd about the Earth encompas'd about by the Air. As to the Liberal Arts they love Poesie above all the rest but only that which is Divine for Prophane Verses they hate which made Gregory extreamly wonder that after the Worship of the Heathen Gods was quite taken away and the Temples of their Gods were wholly destroyed that the Books and Verses which Treated or were Dedicated to them were not as utterly Abolish'd For that it was not fitting for Christians to read the Rude and Obscene Fables of their feigned Divinities much less to imitate them and fetch from thence the chief Ornaments of their Poems seeing that the very Footsteps of Idolatry ought to be an abomination to Christianity These Verses of the Ethiopians consist in meer Rithmes if we may Assert Consonants of the same Order differing in the Vowels to be Rithmes For beside those there is no other Matter to be observ'd Of these they have several sorts as we shall teach in another Place They are also very much delighted with abstruse Sayings and Proverbs as for Example The Mountains of Kobol as with a burning-Glass and so the prefix'd time of Man is consum'd by the passing of his days They are extreamly Covetous of Learning and were extreamly importunate with the Jesuits to teach their Children the Latine Language But they were more eager in promoting the Latine Religion then the Language pretending the difficulty of the Undertaking and the vast difference between the Latine and Amharic Pronounciation Indeed it cannot be deny'd but that it is a most difficult thing to teach a Person who never heard of Grammar as I found by the tryal of Gregory For the Habessines learn Languages only by Converse more especially the Arabic which is frequently spoken by the neighbouring Merchants the Mahometans who are subject to the King and the Courtiers themselves and in this Language the King Writes his Letters to Forrain Princes On the otherside the Arabians themselves as they are very much inclin'd to propagate their Fables among the Christians write them in the Arabick Language but make use of the Ethiopic Letters that thereby they may the more easily impose upon the simple people Private persons seldom write Letters nor do they know the method of sending them But if any one has a desire to write he goes to the Scribe of the Province who is call'd Pahafe Hagare and for a small Sum of Money causes him to Compose them an Epistle and you must know that the Exordiums of their Epistles are various in their Forms for that in the Elegancy of their first Addresses they place the chiefest ornament of their Complements CHAP. III. Of the Names of Men among the Habessinians Their proper Names are significative not to be expounded Appellatively taken most commonly from the Sacred names of the Trinity Christ Mary c. The Heathenish Names detested The Names of their Women common with the Arabian Appellations some peculiar THe Native Names of the Habessinians as well Men as Women which were not first introduc'd with their Divine Worship from the Hebrew or Greek Languages or were not deriv'd to them from the Copts or Arabians as David Jacob Andrew Theodore Gregory are all Significative And therefore they that take them for Appellatives may thereby strangely disturb and confound the sense and meaning of them and therefore we thought it worth our while to expound some of them to the end that by that means the rest may be the more easily understood Those which have the Article Za affix'd before them as a mark of the Genitive Case denote either some Devotion or Subjection as for Example Zaslasse That is a Subject or Votary to the Holy Trinity Zachristos that is devoted to Christ Zawalda Marjam Of the Son of Marie Servant or Subject Za Marjam Of Mary Servant or Subject Zadenghel Of the Virgin Servant or Subject Za Michael Of Michael Servant or Subject Tecla Slasse The Plant of the Trinitie Many are compounded with the Name of Christ as Gabra Christos The Servant of Christ Sula Christos The Image of Christ Tzaga Christos The Grace of Christ Acala Christos The Substance of Christ Tenssa Christos Christ arose Which in speech are Contractedly pronounced thus Gabraxos Seelaxos Tzagaxos Acalaxos Tanseaxos Otherwise they are Compounded with the name of Mary or the Virgin as Habta Marjam The Gift Of Mary or the Virgin Tecla Marjam The Plant Of Mary or the Virgin Mahtzentza Marjam The Gage Of Mary or the Virgin Laica Marjam The Servant Of Mary or the Virgin Atzfa Marjam The Mantle Of Mary or the Virgin Serza Denghel The Blossom Of Mary or the Virgin Other Names are fram'd out of other Divine and Sacred Words as Tzaga-zaab The Grace of the Father Fekur-Egzi-e The Beloved of God Jesus Moa Christ hath overcome Kesta-Wahed The Portion of the only Son of God Amda-Tzehon The Pillar of Sion Tesfa Tzejon The hope of Sion Ber-a-Jacob The Seed of Jacob. Zer-a-Johans The Seed of John Bahaila Selus By the Vertue of the Trinity Bahaila Michael By the Vertue of Michael For they think it not becoming Christians to give their Children Heathenish Names believing that their Children by those Names which they bear which were formerly those of Famous and Pious Men are to be put