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Life of Zamikāʾel ʾAragāwi, founder of Dabra Dāmmo

ገድለ፡ ዘሚካኤል፡ አረጋዊ፡ / Gadla Zamikāʾel ʾAragāwi · Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record) · Saint is the most famous of the Nine Saints, who came to Ethiopia in the late 5th or earl… · hagiography · BHO 96; KRZ 19; LIT1526GadlaZ

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

Only a French translation exists: M.-A. van den Oudenrijn, La vie de saint Za Mikāʾēl ʾAragāwī, traduite de l'éthiopien avec introduction et notes, Fribourg 1939; HOLLIS gives language 'fre' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Zamikael%20Aragawi&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Gəʿəz text was edited by I. Guidi, 'Il «Gadla ʾAragāwi»', Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie ser. 5, 2 (1894), 54-96 (Beta Masaheft bibliography: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/bibliography/master/citations.xml). No English version appears under any form of the title or the saint's name: 'Gadla Aragawi', 'Aragawi English translation' and 'Gadla Aragawi English' all return 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gadla%20Aragawi%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 96 / KRZ 19. The Beta Masaheft work record names no manuscript witnesses and carries only incipit and explicit; the Gəʿəz text was edited by Guidi (1894).

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
La vie de saint Za Mikāʾēl ʾAragāwī, traduite de l'éthiopien (French) · Marcus Antonius van den Oudenrijn · 1939

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT1526GadlaZ

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 Zamikāʾel ʾAragāwi founder of Dabra Dāmmo — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Zamikāʾel ʾAragāwi, founder of Dabra Dāmmo” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-zamikael-aragawi