The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great: Being a Series of Ethiopic Texts Edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, with an English Translation and Notes

Commissioned and edited by the noted Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, this work was published by C.J. Clay and Sons at the Cambridge University Press in 1896. The project was born from a desire to make the Ethiopic Alexander legend, which had evolved significantly from the original Greek 'Alexander Romance', accessible to a wider Western academic audience. Budge drew extensively from manuscripts held in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale, reflecting the Victorian era's systematic efforts to catalog and translate Near Eastern and African literary traditions for institutional study.

Budge's design for the volume focused on rigorous philological accuracy, pairing the Ethiopic text with a comprehensive English translation and extensive critical notes. The work was intended as a definitive reference, blending the fantastical elements of the Alexander legends—such as his journeys to the ends of the earth—with Budge's detailed commentary on the translation process. Upon release, it was well-received by the academic community as a significant contribution to the study of Coptic and Ethiopic linguistics, cementing Budge's reputation as a prolific, if sometimes controversial, figure in the field of archaeology and translation.