Historia Aethiopica (1681 Ludolf), book
Historia Aethiopica (1681) is a book by Hiob Ludolf.
Abstract
In Book III (De rebus ecclesiastics Habessinorum), ch.4 (De Libris Sacris Habessinorum), #49 (Liber Henochi falsus), Ludolf discussed rumors of an Ethiopic version of 1 Enoch but was skeptical about its existence. In particular proved that the ms. purchased in 1633 by French intellectual and collector Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and then at the Library of Cardinal Mazarin, was not a copy of the "lost" Book of Enoch but a theological commentary containing merely citations of and allusions to the Book of Enoch--the treatise De mysteriis coeli & terrae, & de la S.S. Trinitate by Abba Bahaila Michaelem.
Editions
Published in Frankfurt, Germany: 1681.