መጽሐፈ፡ ዶርሆ፡ (Maṣḥafa dorho)
· Anonymous ('Homily and Teaching of Our Fathers, the Holy Apostles')
· composed in Greek, probably 5th-6th c.; now extant only in Gǝʿǝz, in manuscripts of the 1…
· apocryphon
· LIT1922Mashaf; ECCA 761
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 NASSCAL e-Clavis entry (ECCA 761, 'Book of the Rooster') lists under English only M.R. James's SUMMARY (Apocryphal New Testament, 1924, p. 150) and David Blocker's 'Annotated English Translation of the Book of the Cock', explicitly described as a translation of Piovanelli's FRENCH translation (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/book-of-the-rooster/). The critical rendering is French: Piovanelli in Écrits apocryphes chrétiens II (Pléiade, 2005), pp. 137-203. A further English rendering appeared as a self-published Zenodo study in 2026 (Željko Stanojević, 'The Ethiopic Book of the Cock: Translation, Analysis, and Textual Study', https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19653973), not a peer-reviewed edition. HOLLIS search 'Mashafa dorho' returns nothing (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Mashafa%20dorho&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Very well attested in manuscript (the e-Clavis inventory lists dozens of witnesses, including 17th-18th c. European collections and large numbers of EMML/HMML codices), yet there is still no critical edition with an English translation. Chaîne's 1905 edition (Revue Sémitique 13) was partial.
Existing translations recorded
Edition / series
Livre du Coq (Écrits apocryphes chrétiens II) · Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 516 · Pierluigi Piovanelli (French) · 2005
The Apocryphal New Testament (summary only, p. 150) · M. R. James (English summary, not a translation) · 1924
Scan search: open scan — 3 candidate(s). The single most findable target in this chunk: e-Clavis (ECCA 761) gives 14 Ethio-SPaRe shelfmarks for the work, and AMQ-003 is an open CC BY-NC-ND facsimile with the item catalogued at exactly f.101ra–111vc. The other ES copies (DZ-010, KTM-005, NSM-002, MAC-002, DAY-001, DMA-014, MQM-010, BQM-005, GKM-006, QDQ-002, FBM-002, SMM-001, SDGM-003) are the same route. Caveats: the work is transmitted inside the Gǝbra Ḥǝmāmāt, so in most witnesses it is a section of a larger book; and the OCR is unusable, so the pipeline must treat this as image-only until a Geʿez HTR pass exists (Transkribus models exist on Beta maṣāḥǝft for 32 records, but not for AMQ-003).
TEI (ES/ESamq003.xml): ms_i1.8.1 locus 101ra-111vc with title ref=LIT1922Mashaf inside the Friday section of the Gǝbra Ḥǝmāmāt; extent 209 folios. e-Clavis (ECCA 761) lists AMQ-003 at fols. 101r–111v. Manifest HTTP 200,…
HMML record (work_id EMML4781): Boru Śellāsē Church, 19th century, 21 leaves, single item 'Book of the rooster' — the cleanest catalogue identification of the work anywhere. Reading room HTTP 200, manifest HTTP 200 (28…
other · Chaîne 1905, 'Le Livre du Coq (Maṣḥafa Dorho)', Revue Sémitique 13: 276–281
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e-Clavis bibliography: 'Chaîne, Marcus. "Le Livre du Coq (Matzhafa Dorho)." Revue Sémitique d'Epigraphie et d'Histoire Ancienne 13 (1905): 276–81 (edition of an incomplete text based on BNF Abbadie 11)'. Internet Archiv…
Harvard Hollis
Hollis query: Book of the Rooster — 560 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.
Petersham, Maud, 1890-1971. "The rooster crows; a book of American rhymes and jingles." New York, The Macmillan company, 1945. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990031343580203941
"The Rooster book." Printed and bound in Venice : By the Legatoria Piazzesi Campiello della Feltrina, 1976. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990043748460203941
Samuelsson, Marcus. "Red Rooster Cookbook : the story of food and hustle in Harlem." Boston : A Rux Martin Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990148172380203941
Bendorf, Oliver Baez, 1987-. "Consider the rooster." New York : Nightboat Books, [2024]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158096760003941
Cite: Tergwame, “Book of the Rooster (Book of the Cock)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-book-rooster