Commissioned by James Bruce (1730–94)
Songs of Songs Songs 1–5. Probably translated in 1770/71. Bruce ms. 94, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
(adapted from a scan of the Bruce manuscript no. 94
at the Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Further reading
Gafat is a language now extinct. For additional texts, see
- Leslau, Wolf. Gafat Documents: Records of a South-Ethiopic Language; Grammar, Text and Comparative Vocabulary. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1945. [Archive.org]
Cross-reference
» Bruce, On Bible translation
(in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, vol. 1, 1790)