Acts of the Righteous Ones of Bāraknāhā

ገድለ፡ ጻድቃን፡ ዘባረክናሃ፡ / Gadla Ṣādǝqān za-Bāraknāhā · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Concerns the sixth-century missionary monks of Bāraknāhā; the Gəʿəz text is medieval, its… · hagiography · BHO 812; KRZ 128; LIT1489Gadlas

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 printed the text in Ricordi di un soggiorno in Eritrea, fasc. 1 (Asmara 1903), language 'ita' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gadla%20Sadqan%20Conti%20Rossini%20Eritrea&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 O. Raineri published an Italian translation, ''Gadla Sadqan' o 'Vita dei giusti': missionari dell'Etiopia nel sesto secolo', Nicolaus 6/2 (1978), 143-163 (Beta Masaheft bibliography: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/bibliography/master/citations.xml). No English version: 'Sadqan English translation Ethiopic' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Sadqan%20English%20translation%20Ethiopic&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 812 / KRZ 128. Beta Masaheft lists five witnesses (BaraknahaSadqan1, BaraknahaSadqan2, BSLet191, ANLcr78, and one unsigled noID), so the text is not a single-manuscript survival.

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Edition / series
'Gadla Sadqan' o 'Vita dei giusti': missionari dell'Etiopia nel sesto secolo (Italian) · Nicolaus 6/2 · Osvaldo Raineri · 1978

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1489Gadlas

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Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Acts of the Righteous Ones of Bāraknāhā” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-sadqan-baraknaha