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, etc., 452, 456, 463, 475, 480, 511, 525, 559 - 564) from the Coptic writers. The mind of Ludolphus was a perfect blank.