No translation of the Gospels ʾandǝmta was located. Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT5981CommGospels is an empty record with a bibliography div and no edition or translation; its only relation is 'isCommentOn LIT1560Gospel' (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT5981CommGospels). The ʾandǝmta corpus is being translated only book by book, and only in slices: Genesis has a full English translation (Mersha Alehegne, The Ethiopian Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Critical Edition and Translation, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, ISBN 9783447064309, verified in HOLLIS - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Alehegne%20Mersha&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the dissertation abstract confirms 'Part III presents the English translation of the text', https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.13.1.83), Micah has the one published scholarly treatment of an ʾandǝmta on a prophetic book (Miguel Ángel García Rodríguez, Ethiopian Biblical Commentaries on the Prophet Micah, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999 - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20biblical%20commentaries%20on%20the%20prophet%20Micah&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and Sirach only in two chapters (Yonatan Binyam, 'Ben Sira in Ethiopia: The Andǝmta Commentary on Sirach 1 and 24', https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004447332_015). Nothing comparable exists for the Gospels. HOLLIS Primo 'Amharic commentary Gospels' returns 5 records, none a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Amharic%20commentary%20Gospels&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 'Ethiopian commentary Gospel of John' returns 16 records, none of them a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20commentary%20Gospel%20of%20John&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
The largest single block of untranslated Ethiopian biblical scholarship: the ʾandǝmta is the standard commentary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and is copied in very many manuscripts, yet English readers have precisely one complete book (Genesis, 2011). Because the Genesis volume exists, the format, terminology and editorial conventions for translating ʾandǝmta are already settled - the remaining books do not need methodological groundwork, only labour.
| Scan / witness | Format | Pages | Rights | OCR | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commentary on the Four Gospels (plus Commentary on the Prayer of the Covenant,… | iiif | 542 | restricted | none | HMML record: private library, Addis Ababa, dated 1960/61, languages ['Amharic'], 510 leaves, first item titled exactly 'Commentary on the Four Gospels'. Reading-room page HTTP 200; IIIF manifest HTTP 200 with 542 canvas… |
| Commentary on the four Gospels (single-item codex) | iiif | 468 | restricted | none | HMML record: private library, Addis Ababa, 1962, Amharic, 453 leaves, single item 'Commentary on the four Gospels'. Reading-room page HTTP 200; IIIF manifest HTTP 200, 468 canvases; image URLs 404 without a reading-room… |
| Commentary on the introduction to the gospels; Commentary on the gospels; Euseb… | iiif | 738 | restricted | none | HMML record: National Archives and Library of Ethiopia, 1973/74, Amharic, 357 leaves. Reading-room page HTTP 200; manifest HTTP 200, 738 canvases; images gated (404 without session). |
| Commentary on the four Gospels (Gǝʿǝz) | iiif | 242 | restricted | none | HMML record: Qeddus Gabreʾēl Church, 1600-1700, languages ['Ge'ez'], 237 leaves, 'Commentary on the four Gospels'. Recorded as uncertain: the language is Gǝʿǝz, so this is more likely the Gǝʿǝz Tǝrgʷāme wangel (LIT2456T… |