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The Book of Spiritual Medicine (anonymous penitential manual, distinct from the compilation of Michael of ʾAṯrīb)

መጽሐፈ፡ ፈውስ፡ መንፈሳዊ፡ (Maṣḥafa faws manfasāwi); Arabic Vorlage كتاب الطب الروحاني · Anonymous · Arabic original medieval; Gǝʿǝz version undated in Beta maṣāḥǝft · canon law · LIT4018Mashafa

Ethiopic · domain: canon-law · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta maṣāḥǝft insists there are two distinct works under this title and warns that the anonymous one is 'transmitted anonymously' (https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/blob/master/4001-5000/LIT4018Mashafa.xml); no English version of either was located. HOLLIS Primo 'Mashafa faws manfasawi' = 0 records and K10plus returns only Kleiner's German partial edition of the other (Michael of ʾAṯrīb) recension (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Dfaws%20manfasawi&maximumRecords=6&recordSchema=dc). Kleiner 2000 pp. 28-40 is cited by Beta maṣāḥǝft precisely for distinguishing this anonymous text from Michael's.

Nineteen witness entries (BnF Éth. 121, BL Add. 16205, BL Orient. 549/550/752/788/799, Tübingen Eth. 3/8/13, BnF Abb. 155, Cheren 22, BerlOrQuart 998, Tanasee 52, BAV Cerulli 81, EMML 1941/1952/2358 ...). Editing history is confusing because catalogues and even some scholarship merge the two Faws manfasāwi texts; anyone commissioning a translation must first settle which recension a given manuscript carries.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (stated in the TEI availability/licence element)
LIT4018Mashafa

Scanned witnesses

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 Book of Spiritual Medicine — 1457 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Integrative medicine
· 2023 · eng
"Integrative medicine." [New York, New York] : Elsevier, 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158440773703941
Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing
· 2018 · eng
"Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing." Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153734985103941
Medicine and Jewish law
· 1990-<c1993- <2005- > · eng
"Medicine and Jewish law." Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, c1990-<c1993- <2005- >. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019134800203941
Medicine, mobility and the empire : Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960
Hokkanen, Markku · 2017 · eng
Hokkanen, Markku. "Medicine, mobility and the empire : Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960." Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99154549468603941
Society & medicine : essays in honor of Renée C. Fox
· 2003 · eng
"Society & medicine : essays in honor of Renée C. Fox." New Brunswick, N.J. (U.S.A.) : Transaction Pub., c2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990090411020203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Book of Spiritual Medicine (anonymous penitential manual, distinct from the compilation of Michael of ʾAṯrīb)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-faws-manfasawi