Life of ʾIyasus Moʾa, first abbot of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos

ገድለ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ሞአ፡ / Gadla ʾIyasus Moʾa · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Saint born 1214 at Daḫnā, became ʿaqqābe saʿat of Dabra Ḥayq in 1248, died 1292/3 (Beta M… · hagiography · KRZ 86; LIT1467GadlaI

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

No English translation located. The only published rendering is French: S. Kur, Actes de Iyasus Moʿa, CSCO 259 (Textus) / 260 (Versio), 1965; the HOLLIS record gives language 'fre;gez' with Kur as 'editor, translator' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gadla%20Iyasus%20Moa&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A query for an English version returns nothing: 'life of Iyasus Moa English' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,life%20of%20Iyasus%20Moa%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 'Iyasus Moa English' returns one 2025 English manuscript-studies volume, not a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Iyasus%20Moa%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Beta Masaheft record lists Kur 1965 as the sole edition and carries no translation entry (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1467GadlaI.xml). Budge's hagiographical corpora do not cover it: they are confined to a translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium (The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, 1928), the Gadla Ḥawāryāt (The 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). These are verified in HOLLIS as English-language Budge volumes: The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church (1928, eng, 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 Life of Takla Hâymânôt in the version of Dabra Lîbanôs (1906, eng, https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Takla%20Haymanot%20Budge&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Contendings of the Apostles (1899-1901, eng, https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Contendings%20of%20the%20Apostles%20Budge&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Beta Masaheft records a single witness for the work, BAVcerulli243 (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cerulli collection 243); the work record lists Kur 1965 as its only edition.

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Edition / series
Actes de Iyasus Moʿa, abbé du couvent de St-Étienne de Ḥayq, II: Versio (French) · CSCO 260, Scriptores Aethiopici 50 · Stanislas Kur · 1965

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Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1467GadlaI

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 ʾIyasus Moʾa, first abbot of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-iyasus-moa