The Abṭelisāt: the Ethiopic recension of the Apostolic Canons (81 canons)

ሴኖዶስ፡ ዘሐዋርያት፡ ቅዱሳን፡ ... አብጥሊሳተ፡ (Abṭelisāt; the incipit is transcribed in the TEI file) · Anonymous (Canons of the Apostles, Ethiopic recension of 81 canons) · Ethiopic translation of the pseudo-apostolic canon collection; undated in Beta maṣāḥǝft · canon law · LIT2677ACABt1

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

The Greek 85 Apostolic Canons are in English (NPNF II-14, 'Constitutions of the Holy Apostles' with the canons), and the Ethiopic text was edited by Winand Fell, Canones apostolorum Aethiopice: dissertatio inauguralis (1871), K10plus languages lat/gez - K10plus lists four records, all Latin (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Dcanones%20apostolorum%20aethiopice&maximumRecords=6&recordSchema=dc). No English translation of the Ethiopic 81 was found: HOLLIS Primo 'Ethiopic apostolic canons eighty-one' = 0; K10plus 'abtelisat' = 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20apostolic%20canons%20eighty-one&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Best e-text in this set: the Beta maṣāḥǝft file transcribes the Gǝʿǝz in 83 paragraph blocks (about 4,100 words), so a translation could be made from open TEI today. The Ethiopic collection is numbered 81, not the Greek 85, and its ordering differs; no manuscript list is given in this record. A second Beta maṣāḥǝft record, LIT2675AC81, carries the same canons as transmitted inside the Aksumite Collection.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (stated in the TEI availability/licence element) LIT2677ACABt1

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

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: The Abṭelisāt — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Abṭelisāt: the Ethiopic recension of the Apostolic Canons (81 canons)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-abtelisat-81-canons