Research Catalog

Title

Baralâm and Yĕwâsĕf : 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. M.A., Litt.D., D.Litt., Lit.D., F.S.A., keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, sometime scholar of Christ's College Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar.

Publication

Cambridge [England] : At the University Press, 1923.

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Additional Authors

• Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
• Euthymius, the Illuminator, Saint, approximately 955-1028
• John, of Damascus, Saint
• British Library. Manuscript. Oriental 699.
• British Library. Manuscript. Oriental 753.

Description

2 volumes (xvi, 246 pages, II pages of plates; cxxi, 351 pages, LXXIII leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm

Uniform Title

• Barlaam and Joasaph (Ethiopic version)
• Barlaam and Joasaph (Ethiopic version). English.
• Acts of Thomas. English.

Subjects

• Christian legends > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800
• Tripiṭaka > Sūtrapiṭaka > Lalitavistara
• Josaphat, Saint (Legendary character) > Legends > Early works to 1800
• Buddhism
• Buddhist legends > Ethiopia > Early works to 1800
• Comparative literature > Themes, motives
• Barlaam, Saint (Legendary character) > Legends > Early works to 1800
• Barlaam and Joasaph
• Gautama Buddha > Legends > Early works to 1800
• Buddha (The concept)

Note

• The Ethiopic text is edited from two 18th-century manuscripts in the British Museum, Oriental 699 and Oriental 753.
• The Ethiopic version derives from an Arabic translation of the Greek version of the material. The traditional attribution of the Greek version to Saint John of Damascus is disputed by many modern scholars; Robert Volk, editor of a 2006-2009 edition of the Greek version (Historia animae utilis de Barlaam et Ioasaph (Spuria). Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter) believes it to be the work of Euthymius of Athos (see volume 1, pages 94-95).
• Plates X-LXXIII in v. 2 reproduce the series of sixty-four woodcuts in the Middle High German version of Barlaam and Josaphat printed in Augsburg by Günther Zainer in approximately 1476.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

v. 1. Ethiopic text, with two plates -- v. 2. The introduction, English translation, etc., with seventy-three plates: I. The Book of Barlaam and Iôasaph, or Josaphat ; II. The Indian sources of the Book of Barlaam and Iôasaph, or Josaphat. 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 Jâtakas, or birth stories of the Buddha ; VI. The Pehlevi version of the Book of Barlaam and Iôasaph ; The Syriac version ; The Arabic versions ; The Hebrew version ; The Persian version ; The Armenian version ; The Georgian version ; The Greek Book of Barlaam and Iôasaph ; The Latin and Western European versions of the Book of Barlaam and Iôasaph. English translation: [The Book of] Baralâm and Yĕwâsĕf belonging to the church of the Saviour of the world. The preaching of St. Thomas in India. The Acts of St. Thomas in India. List of Bible passages quoted or referred to.

Call Number

*OEG (Barlaam and Josaphat. Baralam and Yewasef)

LCCN

25018198

OCLC

2138775

Title

Baralâm and Yĕwâsĕf : 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. M.A., Litt.D., D.Litt., Lit.D., F.S.A., keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, sometime scholar of Christ's College Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar.

Publisher

Cambridge [England] : At the University Press, 1923.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934, editor, translator.

Euthymius, the Illuminator, Saint, approximately 955-1028, attributed name.

John, of Damascus, Saint, attributed name.

British Library. Manuscript. Oriental 699.

British Library. Manuscript. Oriental 753.

Added Title

Container of (work): Barlaam and Joasaph (Ethiopic version)

Container of (expression): Barlaam and Joasaph (Ethiopic version). English.

Container of (expression): Acts of Thomas. English.

Other Form:

Online version: Baralâm and Yĕwâsĕf. Cambridge [England] : At the University Press, 1923 (OCoLC)578485815

Related To

Based on (work): Barlaam and Joasaph (Greek version).

Research Call Number

*OEG (Barlaam and Josaphat. Baralam and Yewasef)