Life of ʾEwosṭātewos (recension β)

ገድለ፡ ኤዎስጣቴዎስ፡ / Gadla ʾEwosṭātewos, recension β · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Saint born 15 July 1273 at Kǝlǝtta ʾAwlǝʿalo (Beta Masaheft PRS3934); three recensions (L… · hagiography · LIT4320GadlaEB

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

The published versions are Latin. Turaev edited the text as Monumenta Aethiopiae Hagiologica III (Petropoli 1905) from British Library Or. 704 and 705, and the Latin versio appeared as CSCO 32 (1906), 'Gadla ʾEwosṭātewos sive Acta Sancti Eustathii'; HOLLIS gives language 'lat;gez' and year 1906 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ewostatewos&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The only modern-language rendering located is French (a composite volume covering four founding saints, not the whole Ewostatewos dossier): G. Colin (trans.), Saints fondateurs du christianisme éthiopien: Frumentius, Garimā, Takla-Hāymānot et Ēwosṭātēwos, Paris 2017, language 'fre' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Saints%20fondateurs%20christianisme%20ethiopien&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 An English-version query returns 0 records: 'Life of Ewostatewos Ethiopic' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Ewostatewos%20Ethiopic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Recension α (LIT4319, witnesses Vat. Aeth. 46, BL Or. 702, EMML 1636) has no edition listed in Beta Masaheft at all. None of this text appears among the hagiographical works Budge translated into English - the Ethiopic Synaxarium (The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, 1928), the Gadla Ḥawāryāt (Contendings of the Apostles, 1899-1901), the Life and Miracles of Takla Hāymānot (1906), Mabaʾ Seyon and Gabra Krǝstos (1898), and the Miracles of Mary with the Life of Ḥannā (1900); all five are verified as English-language volumes in HOLLIS (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Book%20of%20the%20Saints%20Ethiopian%20Church%20Budge&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Recension β is characterised by its devotion to Mary and is judged an elaborated shorter version of α; witnesses BL Or. 704, BL Or. 705, EMML 529. The general record is LIT1438GadlaE.

Existing translations recorded

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Edition / series
Vitae sanctorum indigenarum: Gadla ʾEwosṭātewos sive Acta Sancti Eustathii (Versio, Latin) · CSCO 32 · Boris Turaev · 1906
Saints fondateurs du christianisme éthiopien (partial, French) · Bibliothèque de l'Orient chrétien · Gérard Colin · 2017

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT4320GadlaEB

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Record	Citation
Vitae sanctorum indigenarum [Gadla Ewosṭātēwos, sive Acta Sancti Eustathii · 1906- · lat, gez	"Vitae sanctorum indigenarum [Gadla Ewosṭātēwos, sive Acta Sancti Eustathii." Romae, K. de Luigi, 1906-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990030112080203941

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of ʾEwosṭātewos (recension β)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-ewostatewos