Kebra negast

[Pragmatic]

KEBRA NAGAST - Title Page

The QUEEN of SHEBA
AND HER ONLY SON
MENYELEK (I)
being

THE 'BOOK OF THE GLORY OF KINGS' (KEBRA
NAGAST) A WORK WHICH IS ALIKE THE
TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISH-
MENT OF THE RELIGION OF THE HEBREWS IN
ETHIOPIA, AND THE PATENT OF SOVEREIGNTY
WHICH IS NOW UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED IN
ABYSSINIA AS THE SYMBOL OF THE DIVINE
AUTHORITY TO RULE WHICH THE KINGS OF
THE SOLOMONIC LINE CLAIMED TO HAVE
RECEIVED THROUGH THEIR DESCENT FROM
THE HOUSE OF DAVID


Translated from the Ethiopic
by
SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE
M.A., LITT.D., D.LITT., LIT.D. F.S.A.
Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge
Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, and Keeper of the
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiqui-
ties in the British Museum.


WITH THIRTY-TWO PLATES

MCMXXXII
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD

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