Life of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni of Dabra ʿAśā (short recension)

ገድለ፡ አባ፡ ዮሐኒ፡ ዘደብረ፡ አሳ፡ / Gadla ʾAbbā Yoḥanni za-Dabra ʿAśā (short recension) · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Medieval monk of Tamben in Tigray; Beta Masaheft PRS10428 gives no dates. The short recen… · hagiography · BHO 496; KRZ 184; LIT1521GadlaY

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: R. Basset, 'Vie d'Abbā Yohanni. Texte éthiopien, traduction française avec une introduction', Bulletin de correspondance africaine 3 (1884), 433-453 (Beta Masaheft bibliography: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/bibliography/master/citations.xml). K10plus records 'Vie d'abba Yohanni: texte éthiopien', 1885, with the note 'trad. francaise ... par René Basset', language 'fre' (https://sru.k10plus.de/gvk?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3D%22Vie%20d%27Abba%20Yohanni%22&recordSchema=dc). No English version: 'Abba Yohanni Dabra Asa' and 'Basset vie abbe Jean' return 0 in HOLLIS (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Basset%20vie%20abbe%20Jean&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 496 / KRZ 184. Five witnesses are listed: BNFeth132, BLadd16230, EMML 1734, EMML 3445, EMML 4268. The long recension (LIT7152, 12 monthly readings, known from Ethio-SPaRe ADMY-014) has no edition and no translation at all.

Existing translations recorded

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Edition / series
Vie d'Abbā Yohanni: texte éthiopien, traduction française (French) · Bulletin de correspondance africaine 3 · René Basset · 1884

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT1521GadlaY

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, “Life of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni of Dabra ʿAśā (short recension)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-yohanni-dabra-asa