Baralâm and Yĕwâsěf : being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva / the Ethiopic text edited for the first time with an English translation and introduction, etc., by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge.

Date:
1923
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About this work

Also known as

Barlaam and Joasaph English & Ethiopic. n 84225321

Publication/Creation

Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1923.

Physical description

2 volumes : 75 (i.e. 74), plate (including facsimiles) ; 23 cm

Notes

Plates X-LXXIII reproduce the series of sixty-four woodcuts in the Augsburg edition of Barlaam und Jehosaphat printed in 1477

Contents

I. Ethiopic text.--II. The introduction: I. The Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. II. The Indian sources of the Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. III. Note on a manuscript of the "Lalita vistara" in the library of the Royal Asiatic society, by Dr. L. Barnett. IV. Summary of the "Lalita vistara". V. The Jȧtakas, or birth stories of the Buddha. VI. The Pehlevi version of the Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. The versions. English translation. The preaching of St. Thomas in India. The Acts of St. Thomas in India. List of Bible passages quoted or referred to.

Holdings

  • Complete set

Where to find it

  • Vol. 1

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    Closed stores
    ZEY.18
  • Vol. 2

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    ZEY.18

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