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Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (Malāk Sagad)

Zēnāhu la-nagūś Śarḍa Dǝngǝl · anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1563-1597 (16th c.) · chronicle · LIT3531Sarsa

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 LIT3531Sarsa lists one edition, Conti Rossini 1907, and no translation entry. That edition is 'Historia regis Sarṣa Dengel (Malak Sagad)', CSCO 20-21, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2 t. 3 (Parisiis 1907), which also contains Guidi's 'Historia gentis Galla'; HOLLIS mms 990031099540203941 records it as 'Edidit [et interpretatus est] K. Conti Rossini' with languages 'Ethiopic and Latin'. A public-domain scan is on archive.org (historiaregissa00guidgoog; access-restricted=false). The 2025 Harrassowitz volume 'Ethiopic historiographical texts' contains Solomon Gebreyes Beyene's 'Edition of the Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dengel (r. 1563-1597): textual tradition and stemma codicum' - an edition, not a translation. HOLLIS 'Sarda Dengel' returns only the 1907 Latin CSCO and the 2025 volume; no English translation.

Among the longest of the 16th-century royal chronicles, and a principal Ethiopian narrative of the Ottoman-backed campaigns and the counter-offensive after Aḥmad Grāñ. Beta Masaheft records a single witness, Bruce 88; the text also circulated through the Ḫāylu compilation. Only the Ge'ez text and a Latin version are available; the 2025 stemma edition has not been followed by a translation.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Historia regis Sarṣa Dengel (Malak Sagad) (Latin version) · CSCO 20-21, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2, t. 3 · Carlo Conti Rossini · 1907

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT3531Sarsa
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1907)
historiaregissa00guidgoog

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 Śarḍa Dǝngǝl — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

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