[Footnote 149: The history of the Copts, their religion,
manners, &c., may be found in the Abbe Renaudot's motley
work, neither a translation nor an original; the Chronicon
Orientale of Peter, a Jacobite; in the two versions of
Abraham Ecchellensis, Paris, 1651; and John Simon Asseman,
Venet. 1729. These annals descend no lower than the xiiith
century. The more recent accounts must be searched for in
the travellers into Egypt and the Nouveaux Memoires des
Missions du Levant. In the last century, Joseph Abudacnus,
a native of Cairo, published at Oxford, in thirty pages, a
slight Historia Jacobitarum, 147, post p.150]