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Chronicle of King Susǝnyos

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1607-1632 (early 17th c.) · chronicle · LIT3951ChronSusenyos

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

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The complete rendering is Portuguese: Esteves Pereira, 'Chronica de Susenyos, rei de Ethiopia' (texto 1892; 'Traducção e notas' 1900, Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa; HOLLIS mms 990047511550203941, gez;por). Beta Masaheft LIT3951ChronSusenyos lists as translations Pereira 1900 (Portuguese), Alemu Haile 2013 (Amharic) and Boavida et al. 2011, II, pp. 206-259 - the English Hakluyt translation of Pedro Páez's History, which reproduces portions of the chronicle. HOLLIS 'Chronica de Susenyos' returns only the 1892-1900 Lisbon edition; no English translation of the chronicle is recorded.

Susǝnyos's reign covers the Jesuit period and the 1632 restoration of Orthodoxy; the chronicle is the Ethiopian counterpart to Páez and Almeida. Beta Masaheft lists no manuscript witnesses of its own, though the text is well attested in the Gondarine codices.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Chronica de Susenyos, rei de Ethiopia. Traducção e notas (Portuguese, complete) · Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, II · Francisco María Esteves Pereira · 1900
Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622, vol. II, pp. 206-259 (partial English rendering of chronicle material) · Hakluyt Society, Third Series, 24 · C. J. Tribe (eds I. Boavida, H. Pennec, M. J. Ramos) · 2011

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT3951ChronSusenyos

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

Sources checked

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