Sabla Wangel
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ሰብለ፡ ወንጌል፡↗ normalized: Sabla Wangel↗ ʾǝtege role: title ↗
Period of Activity
She was a wife of Yoḥannǝs I↗ and mother of ʾIyāsu I↗ . Sabla Wangel↗ acted as patroness of the church in several ways. She was well-read in theological books and therefore strongly supported the production of manuscripts. Some sources credit her with the impulse to translate Maṣḥafa faws manfasāwi from Arabic in 1687. She also donated manuscripts and books to the monastery of Dabra Libānos↗ and other monasteries.
Death
She died of an infectious disease.
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Names
- birth: ሰብለ፡ ወንጌል፡ gez
- ʾǝtege role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1668–1690
Death: 1690
Occupation
Queen
Residence
Gondar
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Guidi, I., ed., 1960. Annales Iohannis I, ’Iyāsu I et Bakāffā. Textus, tr. I. Guidi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 22, Scriptores Aethiopici, 5 (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1960).
Secondary Bibliography
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Böll, V. 2010. ‘Säblä Wängel’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 436a-b.
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- London, British Library, BL Oriental 510 which contains the following internal dates: - . The description of the manuscript also contains the following dates ዓመት፡ ምሕረት፡ ፸፻ወ፩ ፻፶ወ፯ዓመት፡ in a explicit element, ፴ወ፱ዓመት in a explicit element, 1667 in a note element, in a handNote element, 1998 in a bibl element, 1868 in a provenance element, 1877 in a bibl element.
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