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》（1563-1597年）是埃塞俄比亚最好的格勒诺布尔史学作品之一，写于国王统治时期。它既有丰富的史料，又保持了文学性。这部编年史是研究埃塞俄比亚和非洲之角历史以及了解中世纪世界文学不可或缺的主要历史资料。早期（1907年）版（和法语翻译）的编年史由孔蒂罗西尼是基于三个手稿，但忽视了五个手稿，是非常重要的证人，在建立文本接近原来的作者写的。该项目由德国研究基金会资助，有两个主要目标。首先，准备一个关键版本的编年史应用所谓的新拉赫曼（词干重建）方法的基础上八个手稿。第二，将《纪事报》中的Geez批判性文本翻译成英文并进行注释。截至2021年1月，该项目已经开展了各种活动，以重建《纪事报》中新更新的重新编辑的Geez文本。在这方面，在项目的第一年完成了对《纪事》八份手稿的手工整理（这确实比计划花费了更多的时间）。整理的结果有助于明确每个手稿证人的各种文本特征和多种类型的错误，包括多源和单源错误，以及有助于建立手稿家族关系的连接错误。根据考据学的原则，对这些手稿中的连接错误进行了检查和分析，将手稿分为家族、亚家族和原型，所有这些都是《抄本词干》的组成部分。一个经典的文本编辑器用于版本的呈现，它包含用于编辑文本的三个装置：变体装置、标点装置和源装置。编辑工作仍在进行中，将于2023年底完成。除了编辑的主要工作外，还完成了其他平行活动，包括分析文本和研究文本传统，并在会议上介绍项目结果，提交文章供出版，并进行研究访问。作为这个正在进行的项目的一部分，国际研讨会将于2023年6月29日至30日举行。筹备工作已经完成。由于整理和编辑工作复杂而耗时，该项目将无法按计划在三年内完成。《纪事》的翻译和注释任务必须在版本完成后完成，新的时间表定于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.