Chronicle of King Yohānnǝs I

· anonymous (royal chronicler) · reign 1667-1682 (17th c.) · chronicle · LIT3947ChronYohannes

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

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT3947ChronYohannes records Guidi 1961 as its only edition and no translation. That edition is Ignazio Guidi, 'Annales Iohannis I, Iyāsu I, Bakāffā', CSCO 22-25, Scriptores Aethiopici ser. 2 t. 5 (Parisiis 1903-05; Louvain reprint 1960). HOLLIS mms 990030445920203941 for that set records the contributor as 'Guidi, Ignazio [ed. and tr]', the note 'Edidit [et interpretatus est] Ignatius Guidi', and the languages 'Ethiopic and French' - no English. HOLLIS 'Yohannes I Ethiopia annals' returns 0 records, and 'Annales Iohannis' returns only the Guidi set. A public-domain scan is on archive.org (annalesiohannisi0000unse).

First of the Gondarine royal chronicles in Guidi's CSCO set, covering the reign of 1667-1682. It shares one CSCO set with Iyasu I and Bakaffa, so a single English translation would unlock three consecutive reigns at once.

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

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 Yohānnǝs I — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/annalesiohannisi0000unse
• HOLLIS search — Annales Iohannis Iyasu Bakaffa
• HOLLIS search — Yohannes I Ethiopia annals
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/3001-4000/LIT3947ChronYohannes.xml

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