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Chronicle of King Baʾǝda Māryām

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1468-1478 (15th c.) · chronicle · LIT4647ChronBaEd

Ethiopic · domain: chronography · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT4647ChronBaEd gives three editions - Perruchon 1893 (ed., tr., French), Haber 1962, Basset 1882 - and no separate translation list. The English item is L. Haber, 'The Chronicle of Baʾeda Maryam (1468-1478)', Ethiopia Observer 6 (1962), 68-80 (bm:Haber1962BaedaMaryam), a short article excerpt. The complete text exists only in French (Perruchon 1893, pp. covering 1434-1478). HOLLIS 'Baeda Maryam chronicle' returns one record, an Amharic edition of the Zarʾa Yāʿqob and Baʾǝda Māryām chronicles (Addis Ababa 2014).

Shorter than his father's chronicle but a key witness to the 1468-1478 period, including the wars of the reign and the king's death. Beta Masaheft's record lists no manuscript witnesses of its own; the text is transmitted inside the same codices as the Zarʾa Yāʿqob chronicle.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
The Chronicle of Baʾeda Maryam (1468-1478) · Ethiopia Observer 6, 68-80 · L. Haber · 1962
Les Chroniques de Zarʾa Yâʿeqôb et de Baʾeda Mâryâm (French, complete) · Bibliothèque de l'École pratique des hautes études 93 · J. Perruchon · 1893

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT4647ChronBaEd

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Chronicle of King Baʾǝda Māryām — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Chronicle of King Baʾǝda Māryām” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-chronicle-baeda-maryam