[Footnote 156: I know not why Assemannus (Bibliot. Orient.
tom. ii. p. 384) should call in question these probable
missions of Theodora into Nubia and Aethiopia. The slight
notices of Abyssinia till the year 1500 are supplied by
Renaudot (p. 336 - 341, 381, 382, 405, 443, &c., 452, 456,
463, 475, 480, 511, 525, 559 - 564) from the Coptic writers.
The mind of Ludolphus was a perfect blank.]