Baralam and Yewasef being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1923. Octavo. Item #031743
Volume 2. cxi, 351 pages. Illustrated with 73 plates. Budge's summarized introduction shows that practically every nation from China to Ireland and from Mongolia to Abyssinia had loved to read the stories, credible, semi-mythical, and fabulous, which have sprung up round the name of Alexander the Great. Every known version of the legendary history of Alexander is based upon the Greek history falsely attributed to Callisthenes, his companion and friend that the Egyptians made Alexander to be an incarnation of one of their old primeval gods by a Macedonian queen. And, that the Christians made him a kinsman and an associate of the Patriarchs, and later a prophet and a repository of the secrets of Christ, and finally a Christian. An earlier volume in the series provided the Ethiopic text. The mythology was recognized by J. Frank Dobie in his "Between the Comanche and the Rattlesnake" (Southwest Review, 1955, p. 40ff.). Bound in rust pictorial gilt cloth, spine lettering gilt but dulled, only light wear to corners and spine ends, front and rear hinges apparently reglued, previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, internally clean without foxing.
Price: $265.00