ABSTRACT
There are no histories of these two emperors other than a few things that are mentioned in passing in the history of Emperor Seltân Çaguêd, which we shall put later.1 Even though they began to write Iacob’s, they soon abandoned it because, unless it is done while the emperor himself is alive or unless he leaves a son who commands it to be done, nobody wants to take on the work. Therefore, I shall only be able to report here the things that certain great men who were constantly in their palace have told me and those that I experienced with them, as we shall see in their due places.
