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Amharic ʾandǝmta commentary on the Psalter

· Anonymous (Ethiopian Orthodox ʾandǝmta commentary tradition) · date uncertain (Amharic commentary tradition) · commentary · LIT5986CommPsalter

Ethiopic · domain: bible · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

No translation located. Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT5986CommPsalter records the work as a commentary on LIT2701Dawit with two manuscript witnesses, Stockholm, EMML-type 'ESrqg015' and London, BL Orient 535, and an incipit of about 1,145 Ge'ez characters; its bibliography div lists no edition and no translation (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT5986CommPsalter). HOLLIS Primo 'Ethiopian Orthodox Psalter' returns 2 records, both collected volumes on liturgy and on the figure of David, neither a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20Orthodox%20Psalter&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The related records LIT6368PsaltComm and LIT5985CommPsalms describe psalters with the commentary copied as continuous text, i.e. the commentary is transmitted inside Psalter manuscripts rather than as a separately edited book.

Only the incipit is transcribed (1,145 characters in the TEI file); the full commentary would have to be taken from the manuscripts. Two witnesses are recorded, so the textual base is thin compared with Genesis.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: no scan located. Both witnesses named by Beta maṣāḥǝft (ESrqg015, BLorient535; relations lawd:hasAttestation in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/5001-6000/LIT5986CommPsalter.xml) are undigitised: https://betamasaheft.eu/api/iiif/ESrqg015/manifest -> 400 'no manifest available', same for BLorient535, and the British Library Digitised Manuscripts viewer redirects to a generic collection page (https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_535_f001r -> 307 to /collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives), i.e. the post-2023 BL service outage. The related records give nothing either: LIT6368PsaltComm has three witnesses (G1IV338 and BNFabb41 return 200 manifests with 0 canvases, ESrqg015 undigitised) and LIT5985CommPsalms lists no witnesses. BNF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 41 is digitised on Gallica (ark:/12148/btv1b52506747v) but Gallica returns 403 from this host and it witnesses the related 'psalter with continuous commentary' record, not LIT5986CommPsalter, so it is not recorded as a candidate. Printed scans: archive.org advancedsearch for title psalter/መዝሙረ ዳዊት in amh/gez returns only beteyared-book-23939, a Ge'ez-Amharic diglot Psalter (text layer sampled: Ge'ez verse + Amharic translation column, no አንድምታ/ማለቱ commentary formulae, so not this work) and beteyared-book-24120, an andǝmta commentary on the Canticles of the Prophets, not the Psalter. No edition of the Psalter andǝmta was located in IA, CSCO on IA (the bulk item has zero Scriptores Aethiopici files), DigiVatLib, HMML or LOC (LOC Ethiopic collection 'andemta' query: 0 results).

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Amharic ʾandǝmta commentary on the Psalter — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Amharic ʾandǝmta commentary on the Psalter” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-andemta-psalter