Life of Sāmuʾel of Wāldǝbbā

ገድለ፡ ሳሙኤል፡ ዘወልድባ፡ / Gadla Sāmuʾel za-Wāldǝbbā · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Saint born at Aksum, founder of the monastery of Wāldǝbbā, died 1389 (Beta Masaheft PRS84… · hagiography · BHO 1039; KRZ 138; LIT1497GadlaS

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 (ed. and tr.), Vie et miracles de Samuel de Waldebba, Patrologia Orientalis 53/1 (235), Turnhout 2013; HOLLIS language 'gez;fre' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Samuel%20of%20Waldebba&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Gəʿəz text had earlier been printed by Turaev, Vita Samuelis Valdebani, Monumenta Aethiopiae Hagiologica II (Petropoli 1902). No English version: 'Samuel Waldebba English' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Samuel%20Waldebba%20English&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 1039 / KRZ 138; witnesses BNFet136 and BNFabb61 (BnF Éthiopien 136 and Abbadie 61).

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Edition / series
Vie et miracles de Samuel de Waldebba (French) · Patrologia Orientalis 53/1 (235) · Gérard Colin · 2013

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1497GadlaS

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 Sāmuʾel of Wāldǝbbā” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-samuel-waldebba