Life of Giyorgis of Gāsǝč̣č̣ā (Giyorgis of Saglā)

ገድለ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡ ዘጋሰጫ፡ / Gadla Giyorgis za-Gāsǝč̣č̣ā · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Fifteenth century: the saint wrote his principal work Maṣḥafa mǝśṭir in 1424 (Beta Masahe… · hagiography · KRZ 72; LIT1456GadlaG

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

French only: G. Colin, Vie de Georges de Saglā, CSCO 492-493, Scriptores Aethiopici 81-82 (Louvain 1987); HOLLIS language 'fre;gez', Colin as 'editor, translator' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Colin%20vie%20Georges%20Ethiopie&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English version: 'Giyorgis Gasgasa' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Giyorgis%20Gasgasa&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

KRZ 72; the single witness listed is EMML 1838. Beta Masaheft and the CSCO title use different name forms (za-Gāsǝč̣č̣ā / de Saglā) for the same saint.

Existing translations recorded

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Edition / series
Vie de Georges de Saglā (French) · CSCO 492-493, Scriptores Aethiopici 81-82 · Gérard Colin · 1987

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1456GadlaG

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

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Giyorgis of Gāsǝč̣č̣ā (Giyorgis of Saglā)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-giyorgis-gasgasa