156 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1913. 
Lordship to send us a press with the Ethiopic types that are 
found in Rome, as also one or two rersons knowing the art of 
printing.’’ ! 
Even this time it does not seem that the wishes of the 
missionaries were realized: for Father Manoel de Imeida, 
Pedro Péez, Manoel Barradas and Alfonso Méndez, who wrote 
most accurately and minutely the history of Ethiopia, make no 
mention of a press in their beloved Mission. 
of their great undertaking. We krow : 
their possession the Ethiopian types presented by the Congrega- 
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Magseph assetat, or ‘‘ The wh'p against falsehoods,’’ a treatise 
in which he refutes the errors of the schismatical Raz Athema- 
teot. It was printed in St. Paul’s College, Goa, in 1642. 
the Emperor’s reque 
composed others in Armaranic or 
God.’’ The Patriarch translated it into Portuguese, and it 
was printed in St. Paul’s College in 1652.8 
' Goana-Malab., Epist. 1580-89, fol. 2, document 143. The Ethiopic 
types found in Rome were probably those used in printing a 4° work, 
about which St. Ignatius of Loyola wrote to Fr. Diego Mirén in Portugal 
on August 22, 1555: ‘* These last years, during the pontificate of Paul 
III, of happy memory, while there were here in Rome some learned 
Abexins and other persons zealous for the spiritual welfare of the king- 
dom of Ethiopia, they prepared and printed the whole New Testamen 
in the Abexin language, the chief one used in their writings and liturgy.’’ 
—— oe Series I, t. IX, p. 487. 
* #tome, Archives of the Congregatio Fide, Lettere 
latine, 1622-1628, vol. I, fol. 178 se : mpegs neiaeh : 
3 SOMMERVOGEL, Bibliotheque, t. IIT, cols. 646 and 647; ALEGAMBE 
and Sorwat,, Jesu, pp . [A copy of it, which 
Martinus N ijhoff, the antiquarian of The Hague, priced 250 florins, was 
sent for description in the beginning of 1912 to M. l’Abbé E. M. Riviere. 
