Beta Masaheft LIT6936TarWaAmidBeta (14 witnesses: BNF Abbadie 20, BNF Éth. 211, BL Orient 814, EMML 21/192/9226, Tanasee 53/136, EMIP 00692 etc.) lists in its translation bibliography only sectional renderings: Hoffmann 2023 (German, the geographical tractate in the story of Eber), Kračkovskij 1912 (Russian, same tractate), Budge 1896 'The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great' (English, but only the Alexander section), Derat & Seignobos 2015 (French, the Moses section). No translation of the whole chronicle exists in any language. HOLLIS 'Tarika Walda Amid' returns one record only, the 2025 Harrassowitz volume 'Ethiopic historiographical texts' (mms 99159778343403941), whose contents list Carsten Hoffmann's chapter 'The translation of the Tārika Walda ʿAmid and the timeline of Ethiopian historiography' - a study of the problem, not a translation. HOLLIS 'Tarika Walda Amid English translation' returns only that same 2025 volume, not a translation.
The Ethiopian universal chronicle: a Ge'ez rendering of al-Makīn's Arabic world history, running from creation through the Islamic era, and the backbone of Ethiopian universal historiography. Two recensions exist: α (pre-Islamic part only, 6 witnesses, LIT6935TarWaAmidAlpha) and the fuller β edited here. Only isolated sections have ever been translated, none of them into English as a continuous text. The 2025 Harrassowitz volume shows the field is still at the editorial stage.
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| The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great: Being a Series of Translations of the Ethiopic Histories of Alexander (Alexander section of Walda ʾAmid only) · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1896 |
| Das geographische Traktat in der Weltgeschichte des Wäldä Amid: Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar (geographical tractate only, German) · Philipps-Universität Marburg dissertation · Carsten Hoffmann · 2023 |
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| Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 |