No published translation was located, but one English monograph still needs checking, so the status is 'unknown' rather than 'none'. Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT5987CommRevelation consists of a bibliography div with no entries and a single relation, 'isCommentOn LIT3179Revela'; it lists neither editions, translations nor witnesses (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT5987CommRevelation). What does exist is a monograph: Roger W. Cowley, The Traditional Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 33, Cambridge University Press 1983), xvi + 417 pp. with one microfiche, the only English-language monograph devoted to the Ethiopian commentary on Revelation that HOLLIS returns (HOLLIS Primo 'Ethiopian commentary Revelation', 10 records - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20commentary%20Revelation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 'Amharic commentary Revelation', 2 records - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Amharic%20commentary%20Revelation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Whether that volume carries a continuous translation of the work could not be determined from the catalogue record or from the paywalled reviews (e.g. Knibb, BSOAS 48 (1985) 2, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00027257), hence 'unknown'. K10plus (pica.all='Andemta') returns no edition of any Ethiopian commentary (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3DAndemta&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc).
The weakest-documented entry in this set: the Beta maṣāḥǝft record carries no manuscript attestation, so even the number of witnesses is unknown from that source. Recorded because the ʾandǝmta on Revelation is a standard item of the Ethiopian commentary curriculum, has a 417-page English monograph devoted to it (Cowley 1983), and is invisible in most English-language reference works on Revelation. The open question for a coverage survey is simply whether Cowley's volume doubles as a translation.
| Scan / witness | Format | Pages | Rights | OCR | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commentary on the Pauline Epistles; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Commen… | iiif | 147 | restricted | none | HMML catalogue record (vhmml_rr_fulldata): repository 'Addis Ababa University. Institute of Ethiopian Studies', shelfmark 'MS 5', 147 leaves, 3 items, languages ['Amharic'], item 3 = 'Commentary on Revelation', date 190… |
| Commentary on Revelation, the Last Supper, and the saying 'The heart of a hermi… | iiif | 174 | restricted | none | Manifest https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/202887 returned HTTP 200 (2026-11-13), label 'EMML 1056', 209 canvases, metadata Repository 'Qeddest Śellāsē Cathedral', Shelfmark 'MS 25'. HMML catalogue: 174 leaves, 11 it… |