The Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā): a late-antique Ethiopian canonical and liturgical corpus
Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā (Beta maṣāḥǝft: 'Aksumite Collection'); no Gǝʿǝz incipit is recorded in the TEI file
· Anonymous (Ethiopian canonical-liturgical collection)
· contents translated from Greek in the 5th-6th (at latest 7th) century; the codex itself i…
· canon law
· LIT1047Aksumi
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 maṣāḥǝft describes the collection as surviving in a codex unicus and tabulates 38 component texts (https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/blob/master/1001-2000/LIT1047Aksumi.xml). No English translation of the collection as a collection was found: HOLLIS Primo 'Aksumite Collection' returns 34 records; the first ten, and every one I opened, concern Aksumite coins, archaeology or history, and none is a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Aksumite%20Collection&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Parts are Englished: George William Horner, The Statutes of the Apostles or Canones Ecclesiastici (London 1904), 'edited with translation and collation from Ethiopic and Arabic mss.' covers the Ecclesiastical canons/Apostolic Tradition segment (https://archive.org/details/statutesapostle00unkngoog); and K10plus records Chase & Johnson, The Apostolic Tradition ... with English translations of the version contained in the Aksumite Collection (Ethiopic) by Alessandro Bausi, 2025, ISBN 979-8-4003-0183-9 (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3DApostolic%20Tradition%20Aksumite&maximumRecords=2&recordSchema=dc). The conciliar canons (Nicaea, Serdica, Neocaesarea, Ancyra, Gangra, Antioch, Laodicea, Constantinople, Chalcedon, Ephesus) have English versions from the Greek in NPNF II-14, but not from this witness. The distinctively Alexandrian items - History of the Episcopate of Alexandria, Sylloge of Timotheus Aelurus, Refutation of the council of Chalcedon, Epistles to the Alexandrinians/Constantinopolitans, the Gǝʿǝz Euchologion and baptismal ritual, On the Only Judge, Twelve chapters of Cyril, Canonical answers of Peter of Alexandria - have no English translation of this recension that I could locate.
Important structural caveat: the Beta maṣāḥǝft file is a collection record with a 38-item edition outline and cross-references to the individual works (LIT2114, LIT2675AC81, LIT6238-LIT6263, LIT2693 etc.); it transcribes no running text, so no word count is possible. The codex unicus is the Qǝfrǝyā manuscript; Bausi 2006 and Bausi et al. 2020 are the reference studies cited in the record. The Chase & Johnson volume is K10plus ISBN 9798400801839 (979-8-4008-0183-9); I did not obtain its publisher from a live record, so no publisher or URL is asserted here. Because so many constituents already have Greek-based English versions, this is a 'collection-level' gap rather than a text nobody can read in English.
The Apostolic Tradition: Its Origins, Development, and Liturgical Practices, with English Translations of the Version Contained in the Aksumite Collection (Ethiopic) · Alessandro Bausi (Aksumite version); Martin Lüstraeten (Arabic version); authors Nathan P. Chase and Maxwell E. Johnson · 2025
Munro-Hay, S. C. (Stuart C.), 1947-2004 · 1986 · eng
Munro-Hay, S. C. (Stuart C.), 1947-2004. "The Munro-Hay collection of aksumite coins." Napoli : Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1986. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015312960203941
Munro-Hay, S. C. (Stuart C.), 1947-2004 · 1999 · eng
Munro-Hay, S. C. (Stuart C.), 1947-2004. "Catalogue of the Aksumite coins in the British Museum." London : British Museum Press, c1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990067206490203941
Cite: Tergwame, “The Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā): a late-antique Ethiopian canonical and liturgical corpus”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-aksumite-collection