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Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon

Eugenia Sokolinski (metadata), Vitagrazia Pisani (encoder annotator)

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Titles

  • Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyonen
  • short: Chron. Am.

General description

Account of campaigns of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I against the Muslims of South-East Ethiopia.

According to Marrassini 1993, originally it was not a real historical work, but a homily to read in the church, with a propagandist purpose.

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Extent:

Extent

10170 words

Creation

Date: After1500

Author and date of writing not known. A witness to the events narrated or a later elaboration (15th cent.?) upon unknown earlier source; cp. ‘Ethiopian historiography’, EAe, III (2007), 40–45 (S. Chernetsov and Red.). About various hypothesis on the dating, see Marrassini 1993. A second redaction (Redaction Ḫaylu ) was promoted by daǧǧāzmāč role: title Ḫāylu around the year 1785 (after rās role: title Mikāʾēl set the historical archives of Gondar↗ on fire)

Witnesses

The following manuscripts are reported in this record as witnesses of the source of the information or the edition here encoded. Please check the box on the right for a live updated list of manuscripts pointing to this record.

Work of the literatures of Ethiopia and Eritrea

According to the stemma codicum proposed by Marrassini 1993, the manuscripts with this text can be grouped in two different families, both coming from a common archetype (Ω): family AM (subarchetype α), and family BPRA2L (subarchetype β); cp. also the stemma codicum proposed by Kropp 1994b

Translation Bibliography

Secondary Bibliography

    Secondary Bibliography

    • Chernetsov, S. and Red. 2007. ‘Ethiopian historiography’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 40–45.
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    • Mantel-Niećko, J. and D. Nosnitsin 2003. ‘ʿAmdä Ṣǝyon I’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 227a–229b.
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    • Taddesse Tamrat 1972. Church and State in Ethiopia 1270–1527, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). page 132-145
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    • Taddesse Tamrat 1970. ‘The Abbots of Däbrä-Hayq 1248–1535’, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 8/1 (1970), 87–117.
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    • Taddesse Tamrat 1974. ‘Problems of Royal Succession in Fifteenth Century Ethiopia: a presentation of the Documents’, in IV Congresso Internazionale di Studi Etiopici (Roma, 10-15 aprile 1972), I, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Anno 371, Problemi attuali di scienza e di cultura, 191 (Roma: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1974), 501–535.
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    • Tedeschi, S. 1978_1979. ‘Le gesta di ’Amda-ṣeyon nella cronologia e nella storia’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 27 (1978_1979), 123–146 (DOI: 10.2307/41299651).
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    • Ullendorff, E. 1966. ‘The Glorious Victories of ʿAmda Ṣeyon, King of Ethiopia’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 29/3 (1966), 600–611 (DOI: 10.2307/611476).
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    • Marrassini, P. 1984. ‘Studi sul testo della “Cronaca” di ʿAmda Ṣeyon. I. Il manoscritto Rüppell (Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main MS 38)’, Egitto e Vicino Oriente,, 7 (1984), 137–161. page 137-161
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    • Marrassini, P. 1985. ‘Studi sul testo della “Cronaca” di ʿAmda Ṣeyon. II. Lo stemma’, Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 8 (1985), 127–150. page 127-150
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Publication Statement

authority
Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik
publisher
Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft
pubPlace
Hamburg
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9.10.2023
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Edition Statement

Digital text based on Marrassini 1993.

Encoding Description

Text prepared within the framework of the TraCES project.

The corrections to the edition have been marked as "comment" in the version accessible from the HZSK portal.

Original spelling and typography is retained.

Encoded according to the Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines. These Guidelines detail the TEI format ruled by the Beta maṣāḥǝft Schema. The present TEI file is enriched with an Xquery transformation taking advantage of the exist-db database instance where the data is stored and of the many external resources to which this data points to.

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Alessandro Bausi, Eugenia Sokolinski, Vitagrazia Pisani, Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Solomon Gebreyes, ʻChronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyonʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 9.10.2023) https://betamasaheft.eu/works/LIT4275ChronAmdS [Accessed: 2024-04-19+02:00]

Revisions of the data

  • Eugenia Sokolinski adjusted witness IDs on 9.10.2023
  • Solomon Gebreyes adjusting encoding on 25.3.2020
  • Solomon Gebreyes adjusting encoding on 22.1.2020
  • Eugenia Sokolinski added relation, corrected spelling, marked rolenames on 2.8.2018
  • Dorothea Reule Ms identifier corrected on 9.1.2018
  • Vitagrazia Pisani provided text for div type edition on 22.11.2017
  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo added sentence level divisions to text on 22.11.2017
  • Dorothea Reule Ms identifier corrected on 15.6.2017
  • Eugenia Sokolinski updated record on 18.1.2017
  • Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: text record on 14.12.2016

Attributions of the contents

Digitized by by Alessandro Bausi (from 1994 to 2004), Vitagrazia Pisani (from 2014 to 2016)

Alessandro Bausi, general editor

Eugenia Sokolinski, editor

Vitagrazia Pisani, editor

Dorothea Reule, contributor

Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor

Solomon Gebreyes, contributor

Digital text based on .
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