Life of Gabra Manfas Qǝddus (ʾAbbā ʾAbbō)

ገድለ፡ ገብረ፡ መንፈስ፡ ቅዱስ፡ / Gadla Gabra Manfas Qǝddus · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Saint died c. 1382 at Mǝdra Kabd ʾAbbō (Beta Masaheft PRS4306); the gädl is later than hi… · hagiography · KRZ 62; LIT1451GadlaG

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 complete dossier (Vita, Homily, Miracles) was edited with an Italian versio by Paolo Marrassini, CSCO 597 (Textus) and 598 (Versio), Louvain 2003. K10plus describes vol. 598 as 'trad. da Paolo Marrassini', language 'ita' (https://sru.k10plus.de/gvk?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3D%22Marrassini%20Gabra%20Manfas%20Qeddus%22&recordSchema=dc); HOLLIS returns the same two-volume set with language 'gez' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Omelia%20Miracoli%20Gabra%20Manfas%20Qeddus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English version: 'Gabra Manfas Qeddus English' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gabra%20Manfas%20Qeddus%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 an English-language review of Marrassini's edition exists (D. Nosnitsin, 2005, recorded in K10plus), but it is a review, not a translation. 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

The general record (LIT1451) covers several recensions; the record notes that the Vita may circulate inside a hagiographic collection that also contains Miracles and Hymns to the saint. No witnesses are listed in the work record.

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Edition / series
"Vita", "Omelia", "Miracoli" del santo Gabra Manfas Qeddus, II: Versio (Italian) · CSCO 598, Scriptores Aethiopici 108 · Paolo Marrassini · 2003

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1451GadlaG

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

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Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Gabra Manfas Qǝddus (ʾAbbā ʾAbbō)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-gabra-manfas-qeddus