unknown (no Gǝʿǝz title is recorded in the Beta Masaheft work record LIT1120Apocal; the work is conventionally cited as 'Apocalypse of Baruch' / '5 Baruch')
· Anonymous (Ethiopic original; attributed to Baruch)
· composition date unknown; an Ethiopic original (not a translation of 2 or 3 Baruch), tran…
· apocryphon
· LIT1120Apocal
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 LIT1120Apocal describes the work as 'originally composed in Ethiopia' with a Christian and a Beta ʾƐsrāʾel recension, and cites only Witakowski's EAE encyclopedia article (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1120Apocal.xml). NASSCAL e-Clavis has no entry for 5 Baruch (checked the full A-Z index, https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/). HOLLIS queries 'Ethiopic Apocalypse of Baruch' and 'Apocalypse of Baruch Ethiopic' return no English translation of the work, only Leslau's Falasha Anthology and general pseudepigrapha reference works (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20Apocalypse%20of%20Baruch&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Harvard catalogue's contents note for Leslau 1951 lists a chapter 'Baruch' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Falasha%20anthology&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 i.e. the Beta ʾƐsrāʾel recension only; no English rendering of the Christian recension was found. Status recorded as 'partial' rather than 'none' for that reason.
The Christian recension is attested in Beta Masaheft by a single witness, London BL Add. 16223 (ms_i.1) - a single-manuscript survival. The Beta ʾƐsrāʾel recension is the one translated by Leslau. Not to be confused with 2 Baruch (Syriac) or 3 Baruch (Greek). No critical edition of the Christian recension was located.
Scan search: restricted scan — 4 candidate(s). Further witnesses with 'Apocalypse of Baruch' item titles in Beta maṣāḥǝft: BNFabb247 (sampled), BLorient503 (sampled) and EQMhag96 (El Beheira, Dayr al-Anbā Maqār, Hagiographica 96; no facsimile located, and no digital route from this host). No edition of the Christian recension exists — Witakowski's EAE article is the only bibliography — so no printed scan can stand in for the manuscript. Leslau's Falasha Anthology (1951) translates only the Beta ʾƐsrāʾel recension, which is already the work's partial English coverage and is not a Gǝʿǝz text witness. Internet Archive and Gallica searches for the work return nothing usable.