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Chronicle of King ʾƎskǝndǝr

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1478-1494 (late 15th c.) · chronicle · LIT4648ChronEsk

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

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT4648ChronEsk lists editions only (Basset 1881, Perruchon 1894) and an empty translation list. Perruchon, 'Histoire d'Eskender, d'ʿAmda-Ṣeyon II et de Nâʾod, rois d'Éthiopie', Journal Asiatique 9e sér. 3 (1894), 319-366, is an edition with French translation. HOLLIS 'Eskender Ethiopia chronicle' returns 0 records; there is no English rendering of this or of the two short chronicles printed with it (ʿAmda Ṣǝyon II, Nāʾod).

ʾƎskǝndǝr's reign (1478-1494) is the hinge between the medieval expansion and the Portuguese contact era. The chronicle is one of the shortest of the series and is usually edited together with the reigns of ʿAmda Ṣǝyon II and Nāʾod, neither of which is in English either.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Histoire d'Eskender, d'ʿAmda-Ṣeyon II et de Nâʾod, rois d'Éthiopie (French) · Journal Asiatique, 9e série, 3, 319-366 · J. Perruchon · 1894

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT4648ChronEsk

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 ʾƎskǝndǝr — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

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