Chronicle of King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1508-1540 (16th c.) · chronicle · LIT4651ChronLeb

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

The only complete modern rendering is Manfred Kropp, 'Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās', CSCO 503-504, Scriptores Aethiopici 83-84 (Lovanii: Peeters, 1988) - German with Ge'ez text; HOLLIS mms 990017967040203941 records the language as gez;ger and 'hrsg. [und übersetzt] von Manfred Kropp'. An older Italian version exists (Roma 1894, 'Storia di Lebna Dengel'). Beta Masaheft LIT4651ChronLeb lists no translation at all. HOLLIS 'Lebna Dengel' returns the German and Italian items but no English translation.

Lǝbna Dǝngǝl (r. 1508-1540) ruled during the 1529-1543 war with Aḥmad Grāñ; his chronicle is the Ethiopian side of that war and a main source for the first sustained Portuguese contact. The Claudius (Galāwdewos) portion of the same CSCO volume has since been superseded by an English translation (Gebreyes, CSCO 667-668, 2019), leaving Lǝbna Dǝngǝl and Minās as the untranslated parts of the set.

Existing translations recorded

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Edition / series
Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās (German) · CSCO 503-504, Scriptores Aethiopici 83-84 · Manfred Kropp · 1988

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT4651ChronLeb

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

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

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