Bruce, Bibliography

(1) Manuscripts

Translation of the Old Testament book called “Song of Songs” (from Ge’ez) into

Word lists

For additional manuscripts, see Murray, Account; Dillmann, Catalogus.

(2) Published sources

Bruce [of Kinnaird], James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1772 and 1773. 5 vols. Edinburgh : Ruthven, 1790. [Online available via Project Gutenberg]

Beckingham, Charles F. (ed.). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce. Abbreviated version. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1964.

Murray, Alexander. Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce […]: Author of Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773. Edinburgh: A. Constable; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. [Google Books]

  • Murray edited the 2nd and 3rd edition of Bruce’s Travels in 1804/05 resp. 1813.

(3) Secondary literature

Berry, LaVerle B. „Bərhan Mogäsa [alias Məntəwwab]”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 1, ed. by S. Uhlig, p. 534-35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003.

—. “Qwəsqwam of Gondär”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 4, ed. by S. Uhlig in cooperation with A. Bausi, p. 318-20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.

Dillmann, August. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae Oxoniensis; part 7: Codices Aethiopici [i.e. Ge’ez]. Oxford: Academic Press, 1848. [Archive.org]

Friis, Ib. “Travelling Among Fellow Christians (1768-1833): James Bruce, Henry Salt and Eduard Rüppell in Abyssinia”, in Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters: New Perspectives on Carsten Niebuhr and ‘The Arabian Journey’, ed. by I. Friis, M. Harbsmeier and J. B. Simonsen, p. 161-94. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2013. [Online version]

Hessayon, Ariel, Annette Yoshiko Reed, and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds.). Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Pankhurst, Richard. “Bruce, James”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 1, ed. by S. Uhlig, p. 631-33. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003