መጽሐፈ፡ ግንዘት፡ / Maṣḥafa gənzat
· Anonymous
· Composition date unknown; the oldest extant manuscripts date to the fifteenth century (Be…
· liturgy
· LIT1931Mashaf
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
Beta Masaheft records two Amharic printed editions (Asmara 1963; Addis Ababa 1969) and two German translations by Friedrich Erich Dobberahn of the burial rite and the commemoration of the dead, in Liturgie im Angesicht des Todes (Pietas Liturgica 10, St. Ottilien 1997), pp. 859-1036 (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1931Mashaf.xml). No English entry in the record. HOLLIS Primo 'Ethiopian funeral ritual' returns no translation of the Maṣḥafa gənzat, only ethnographic and art volumes (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20funeral%20ritual&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
A large composite book (the record lists homilies, prayers and the Maṣḥafa fətḥat among its contents) with several recensions; Dobberahn renders the burial rite and the commemoration of the dead, not the whole corpus, so even the German coverage is partial. Guidi's Italian studies (1910, 1911) are earlier partial treatments. The work is large and composite, and no English rendering of any part of it was located.
Existing translations recorded
Edition / series
Der äthiopische Begräbnisritus · Pietas Liturgica 10 (Liturgie im Angesicht des Todes II) · Friedrich Erich Dobberahn; Hansjakob Becker; Hermann Ühlein · 1997
Scan search: open scan — 3 candidate(s). Work page https://betamasaheft.eu/works/LIT1931Mashaf/main lists 73 witnesses; 31 of them return a IIIF manifest from https://betamasaheft.eu/api/iiif/<id>/manifest (200). The four open candidates above are the ones with the fullest text; further digitised witnesses (EMIP00151, EMIP00069, ES* Ethio-SPaRe codices) fall under the same CC BY-NC-ND EMIP/EMML/ES image licence. No scan of a printed edition was found: the two Amharic editions cited by Beta maṣāḥǝft (Asmara 1963, Addis Ababa 1969) do not exist on IA (title/script searches 'genzat', 'ግንዘት', 'mashafa genzat' -> 0 hits), the IA CSCO bulk item holds no Scriptores Aethiopici volume at all (file list of Corpus-Scriptorum-Christianorum-Orientalium: 1,346 files, 0 matching 'aethiop'), and Dobberahn's 1997 German partial translation (Pietas Liturgica 10) is not online. DigiVatLib negative check (recorded so it is not repeated): Beta maṣāḥǝft names BAVet115, BAVet51 and BAVet74 as gənzat witnesses, but https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.et.115/manifest.json, .../MSS_Vat.et.51/... and .../MSS_Vat.et.74/... all return 404 on 2026-11-13, i.e. not digitised; only Vat.et.24/29/8/298 are. HMML's copies of the EMML codices are the same films surfaced openly through Beta maṣāḥǝft, so they are not listed twice.
"Ritual dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean : agency, emotion, gender, representation." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, c2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990129904920203941
Everts, W. W. (William Wallace), 1814-1890 · 1883 · eng
Everts, W. W. (William Wallace), 1814-1890. "Pastor\u0027s hand book : a ritual of scriptural and poetical selections and studies for weddings, funerals, and other official duties." New York : Sheldon, 1883. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159887095303941
"The funeral service as used in the Second Parish of Worcester, Massachusetts." [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [date not identified]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990150044790203941
"Greek ritual poetics." Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Athens, Greece : Foundation of the Hellenic World ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097336920203941
Rothenbuhler, Eric W. "Ritual communication : from everyday conversation to mediated ceremony." Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078674560203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Book of the Funeral Ritual (Maṣḥafa gənzat)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-mashafa-genzat