Life of Filǝṗṗos, founder of Dabra Bizan

ገድለ፡ ፊልጶስ፡ ዘደብረ፡ ቢዛን፡ / Gadla Filǝṗṗos za-Dabra Bizan · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · The saint founded Dabra Bizan in 1373/4 and died aged 84 (Beta Masaheft PRS4107); the gäd… · hagiography · BHO 984; KRZ 55; LIT1444GadlaF

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 only edition is Italian-language: C. Conti Rossini, 'Il Gadla Filpos e il Gadla Yoḥannes di Dabra Bizan', Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie ser. 5, 8 (Roma 1903), as recorded in the Beta Masaheft bibliography (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/bibliography/master/citations.xml). Beta Masaheft lists no separate translation volume for LIT1444. HOLLIS has no record for the article or for any English rendering: 'Conti Rossini Filpos' and 'Filpos Dabra Bizan English' return 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Filpos%20Dabra%20Bizan%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 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

BHO 984 / KRZ 55. Beta Masaheft's work record names no witnesses; the text belongs to the dossier of the Ewostatean house of Dabra Bizan in Tigray. The Italian edition is listed only as an edition (no separate versio) in the Beta Masaheft bibliography.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

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Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1444GadlaF

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Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Filǝṗṗos, founder of Dabra Bizan” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-filippos-dabra-bizan