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Life of Takla ʾAlfā, abbot of Dimā Giyorgis

ገድለ፡ ተክለ፡ አልፋ፡ / Gadla Takla ʾAlfā · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Sixteenth century: appointed abbot of Dimā Giyorgis by ʾaṣe Lǝbna Dǝngǝl (r. 1508-1540) a… · hagiography · KRZ 149; LIT1505GadlaT

Ethiopic · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

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: E. Cerulli, 'Gli Atti di Takla Alfā', Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale 2 (1943), 1-87, per the Beta Masaheft bibliography (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/bibliography/master/citations.xml); K10plus records the same as 'Gli Atti di Takla Alfā', 1942, language 'ita' (https://sru.k10plus.de/gvk?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3D%22Cerulli%20Takla%20Alfa%22&recordSchema=dc). No English version: 'Gadla Takla Alfa' and 'Takla Alfa' return 0 records in HOLLIS (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Takla%20Alfa&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 149; witnesses BAVcerulli184 and BAVcerulli271 (Vatican, Cerulli collection). K10plus gives 1942 for the Cerulli article while Beta Masaheft cites 1943.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Gli Atti di Takla Alfā (Italian) · Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale 2 · Enrico Cerulli · 1943

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT1505GadlaT

Scanned witnesses

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

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Life of Takla ʾAlfā abbot of Dimā Giyorgis — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Takla ʾAlfā, abbot of Dimā Giyorgis” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-takla-alfa