Acts of King Naʾakkʷǝto Laʾab

ገድለ፡ ነአኵቶ፡ ለአብ፡ / Gadla Naʾakkʷǝto Laʾab · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Naʾakkʷǝto Laʾab, of the Zagwe dynasty, succeeded his uncle King Lalibāla and died around… · hagiography · KRZ 120; LIT1484GadlaN

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

Italian only: C. Conti Rossini, 'Gli Atti di re Naʾakweto Laʾab', Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale 11 (1943), 105-232; Beta Masaheft lists this both as edition and as translation for the work (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1484GadlaN.xml). No HOLLIS record exists under the name ('Naakuto Laab' and 'Naakute Laab' both return 0: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Naakute%20Laab&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and no English version is recorded. A study of the text by M.-L. Derat (2007) is listed as secondary literature in Beta Masaheft but is 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

KRZ 120. Beta Masaheft lists a single witness, BNFabb29 (BnF Abbadie 29) - the text as catalogued survives in one manuscript, which makes the Italian translation the only access point for readers without Gəʿəz.

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Edition / series
Gli Atti di re Naʾakweto Laʾab (Italian) · Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale 11 · Carlo Conti Rossini · 1943

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1484GadlaN

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

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Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Acts of King Naʾakkʷǝto Laʾab” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-naakkwe-to-laab