Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon
Eugenia Sokolinski (metadata), Vitagrazia Pisani (encoder annotator)
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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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.
- Bodleian Bruce 88
- BL Oriental 821
- BnF Éthiopien 143
- Frankfurt Ms. or. 38
- BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 118
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
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Marrassini, P. 1993. Lo scettro e la croce: La campagna di ʿAmda Ṣeyon I contro l’Ifāt (1332), ed., tr. P. Marrassini, Studi Africanistici, Serie Etiopica, 4 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, 1993). (about: witness , Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52)
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Dillmann, A. 1884. Die Kriegsthaten des Königs ʿAmda-Ṣion gegen di Muslim, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, XVIII. Sitzung der philosophisch-historischen Klasse vom 6. November 1884 (Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1884). (about: witness , Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Bruce 88)
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Ducati, B. 1939. La grande impresa di Amda Siòn: romanzo storico del XIV secolo. I miracoli di Abbà Garimà: omelia del XV secolo (Milano: Aldo Garzanti, 1939).
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Huntingford, G. W. B. 1965. The Glorious Victories of ʿĀmda Ṣeyon King of Ethiopia, tr. G. W. B. Huntingford, The Oxford Library of African Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). (about: witness , Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, London, British Library, BL Oriental 821)
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Kropp, M., tr., 1994. Der siegreiche Feldzug des Königs ʿĀmda-Ṣeyon gegen die Muslime in Adal im Jahre 1332 n. Chr., Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 539, Scriptores Aethiopici, 100 (Louvain: Peeters, 1994). (about: witness , Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, No item: BNFabb52)
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Perruchon, J. 1889. ‘Histoire des guerres d’ʾAmda Ṣyon, rois dʾÉthiopie’, tr. J. Perruchon Journal Asiatique, ser. 8, 14 (1889), 271–363, 381–493. (about: witness , Chronicle of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon, London, British Library, BL Oriental 821)
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Turaev, B. 1936. Abissinskie xroniki XIV-XVI vv., ed. I. Ju. Kračkovskij (Moskva: Akademija Nauk SSSR, 1936).
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Paez, P. 1906. Rerum Aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI ad XIX, III: P. Petri Paez S.I. Historia Aethiopiae, Liber III, ed. C. Beccari (Romae: Excudebat C. de Luigi, 1906). page 1-14
Translation Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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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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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: 2024-05-04+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