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Chronicle of King Minās

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1559-1563 (16th c.) · chronicle · LIT4330Minas

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 LIT4330Minas lists Pereira 1888 (edition) and Kropp 1988 (edition) and, as its only translation, Kropp 1988 pp. 29-38 - German, and only that section. The reign narrative is short and is printed inside Kropp's CSCO 503-504 volume. No English version appears in Beta Masaheft's bibliography, and HOLLIS 'Minas chronicle' returns only the German CSCO volume among Ethiopia-related hits.

Beta Masaheft records a single witness, Bruce 88 (Bodleian Bruce 88) - the same codex that carries the Zarʾa Yāʿqob and Śarḍa Dǝngǝl chronicles, so this short reign depends on a very narrow manuscript base. Minās (r. 1559-1563) is the king whose reign opened the sustained Jesuit mission.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās, pp. 29-38 (German, partial) · CSCO 503-504, Scriptores Aethiopici 83-84 · Manfred Kropp · 1988

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT4330Minas

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 Minās — 12 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās
· 1988 · gez, ger
"Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās." Lovanii : E. Peeters, 1988. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990017967040203941
The epic of Gilgamesh : the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
· 2020 · eng
"The epic of Gilgamesh : the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian." New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990130773720203941
The Norton anthology of poetry
· 2018 · eng
"The Norton anthology of poetry." New York, NY ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153698008703941
The African past : chronicles from antiquity to modern times
Davidson, Basil, 1914- · 1964 · eng
Davidson, Basil, 1914-. "The African past : chronicles from antiquity to modern times." Boston : Little, Brown, 1964. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012681590203941
Betsy Sherman collection of press kits, circa 1982-2005
Sherman, Betsy · 1982-2005 · eng
Sherman, Betsy. "Betsy Sherman collection of press kits, circa 1982-2005." 1982-2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157226862403941

Sources checked

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