Beta Masaheft LIT4633Chronicle lists Basset 1882 and Guidi 1961 as editions and no translation. Guidi's 'Annales Iohannis I, Iyāsu I, Bakāffā' (CSCO 22-25, Paris 1903-05; Louvain 1960) is Ethiopic with a French version (HOLLIS mms 990030445920203941, 'Ethiopic and French'); Basset's 'Études sur l'histoire d'Éthiopie' (Paris 1882) is French. HOLLIS 'Bakaffa' returns exactly two records - the Guidi CSCO set and a photograph of Gondar - and no English translation.
Bakāffā's chronicle is the source for the anecdotes about the king's night wanderings and for the court ritual of the period; it is also central to the political history of the early 18th century. Untranslated except in Guidi's French and Basset's earlier French extracts.
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| Annales Iohannis I, Iyāsu I, Bakāffā (Ethiopic text with Guidi's French version) · CSCO 22-25, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2, t. 5 · Ignazio Guidi · 1903 |
| Études sur l'histoire d'Éthiopie (French) · Extrait du Journal Asiatique · René Basset · 1882 |
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