The Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (r.1563‒1597): A Critical Edition with annotated English Translation

《萨尔达·登格尔国王编年史》(1563年-1597年)是埃塞俄比亚最好的Gǝʿǝz史学著作之一，写于国王统治期间。它的独特之处在于它所包含的丰富的史料和它所保持的文学性。这部编年史是研究埃塞俄比亚和非洲之角历史以及理解中世纪世界文学不可或缺的主要史料。Conti Rossini的编年史早期(1907年)版(和法语翻译)基于三个手稿，但忽略了另外五个手稿，这些手稿是建立文本接近作者原著的非常重要的见证。该项目由德国研究基金会资助，主要有两个目标。首先，在八份手稿的基础上，应用所谓的新拉赫曼尼亚(干基重构主义)方法准备一份评论版的编年史。第二，将《纪事报》批判性确立的文本翻译成英文并加以注释。截至2021年1月，该项目开展了各种活动，以重建更新后重新编辑的《纪事报》新的盖兹文本。在这方面，在该项目的第一年就完成了对编年史8份手稿的手工校对(这确实花费了比计划多得多的时间)。整理的结果有助于清楚地识别每个手稿证人的各种文本特征和多种类型的错误，包括多基因错误和单基因错误，以及有助于建立手稿家族关系的合取错误。根据考据学的原理，对手稿中的连词错误进行了考察和分析，将手稿分为家族、亚家族和原型，所有这些都是丛书的一部分。使用经典文本编辑器来呈现版本，该版本包含三种用于编辑文本的设备：变体设备、标点符号设备和源设备。编辑工作仍在进行中，将于2023年底完成。除了版本的主要工作外，还完成了其他平行活动，包括分析文本和研究文本传统，在会议上介绍项目成果，提交文章发表，以及进行研究访问。作为这一正在进行的项目的一部分，将于2023年6月29日至30日举办一次国际研讨会。筹备工作已经完成。由于校勘和编辑工作复杂耗时，该项目将无法按计划在三年内完成。编年史的翻译和注释任务必须在版本完成后进行，新的时间表安排在2024年，这意味着该项目将需要一年，即2024年，才能获得资金。

The Chronicle of King Sarda Dengel (1563-1597) is one of the best Gǝʿǝz historiographic works of Ethiopia, written during the reign of the king. It is unique both in terms of the abundant historical data it contains and the literary quality it maintains. This Chronicle is an indispensable primary historical source for the study of the history of Ethiopia and Horn of Africa as well for the understanding of the medieval world literature. The earlier (1907) edition (and French translation) of the Chronicle by Conti Rossini was based on three manuscripts but neglected five more manuscripts that are very important witnesses in establishing the text close to the original written by the author. The project, funded by the German Research Foundation has two main objectives. First, to prepare a critical edition of the Chronicle applying the so called Neo-Lachmannian (stemmatic reconstructivist) method based on eight manuscripts. Second, to translate the Ge’ez critically established text of the Chronicle into English and annotate it. As of January 2021, the project has undergone a variety of activities to reconstruct the new updated re-edited Ge’ez text of the chronicle. In this regard, a manual collation of eight manuscripts of the chronicle was completed in the first year of the project, (which indeed took much time more than it was planned). The result of the collation helps to identify clearly the various textual features of each of the manuscript witnesses and many types of errors, including polygenetic and monogenetic errors, as well as conjunctive errors that is helpful in establishing the family relation of the manuscripts. Based on textual criticism principles, conjunctive errors were examined and analyzed to group manuscripts into families, sub-families, and archetypes, all of which are parts of stemma codicum. A classical text editor is used for the presentation of the edition, which contains three apparatuses for the edited text: variant apparatus, punctuation apparatus, and source apparatus. The editing work is still in progress, which will be accomplished at the end of 2023. Aside from the main work of the edition, other parallel activities including analyzing the text and studying the textual tradition and presenting the results of the project at conferences, submitting article for publication, and conducting research visits were also accomplished. As part of this ongoing project, an international workshop will be held on June 29 to 30, 2023. Preparatory work has already completed. Due to the complex and time-consuming work of collation and edition, the project will not be completed within three years as planned. The task of translating and annotating the Chronicle, which must follow the completion of the edition, is scheduled in the new timetable for 2024, which means that the project will need one year, 2024, to be funded.