Variance in the Ethiopian "Short Chronicles" corpus

在基督教埃塞俄比亚不间断地生产和使用手稿的七个世纪里，只有两个内源书面语料库可以被称为史学：国王的官方编年史，称为《长编年史》，一些汇编被称为《短编年史》(SC)。它们是13世纪以来每个统治时期的简史，与各种编年史和历史文本一起复制。它们出现在18世纪，由修道院和知识分子创作，当时君主制逐渐失去了对历史写作的控制。两个世纪以来(公元前18-20世纪)，手稿被传播，大量的汇编被复制和发行。手稿不同版本之间的差异值得比迄今收到的更多的关注；这既适用于文本，也适用于汇编的结构。本项目的一个目的是明确不同的手稿家族，确定它们产生的环境，并追溯它们的传播历史。这导致了埃塞俄比亚研究中仍未得到回答的问题：编译器是如何工作的？必须研究不同书面语料库之间的关系，而不是忽视口头传统与书面语料库的缓慢融合，因为SC为这一过程提供了证据。

During the seven centuries of uninterrupted production and use of manuscripts in Christian Ethiopia, only two written endogenous corpora can be called historiographical: the official annals of the kings, called the «Long Chronicles», and some compilations called the «Short Chronicles» (SC). They are abridged histories of each reign since the 13th century, copied together with various Chronographie and historical texts. They appeared during the 18th century and were produced in monastic circles as well as by intellectuals, during a period in which the monarchy gradually lost its control on the writing of history. For two centuries (18th-20th c.), the SC was transmitted and numerous compilations were copied and emandated.Variations between the different versions of the SC deserves far more attention than it has so far received; this applies both to texts as well as to the structure of the compilations. One aim of the present project is to specify the different families of manuscripts, defining the milieus in which they were produced and tracing back the history of their transmission. This leads to questions in Ethiopian studies that remain unanswered: how did compilers work? Relationships between different written corpora have to be studied, without neglecting the slow integration of oral traditions into the written corpus, as the SC offers evidences of such process.