መቃብያን (Mäqabǝyan) - Gǝʿǝz title as given in the 2026 archive.org rendering; the Beta Masaheft record carries only the English title
· Anonymous (Ethiopic Maccabean cycle, distinct from Greek 1-4 Maccabees)
· composition date unknown; received as deuterocanonical in the 81-book Ethiopian Orthodox…
· apocryphon
· LIT1819Maccab
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 has separate work records but no translation bibliography for any of the three books (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1819Maccab.xml). HOLLIS 'Meqabyan' returns 0 results and 'Ethiopian Maccabees' returns no translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Meqabyan&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Archive.org returns only two relevant items: the 1905 German 'Das äthiopische Maccabäerbuch' (https://archive.org/details/dedupmrg1016100231_IE146043324-5-47) and 'The Three Books of Meqabyan: A CC0 1.0 English Translation from Amharic' (2026), whose own metadata states it is translated FROM AMHARIC by an AI research project, with no Ge'ez critical base (https://archive.org/details/three-books-of-meqabyan-cc0-translation). No scholarly English translation from Gǝʿǝz was located in HOLLIS, OpenAlex or e-Clavis.
Not the Greek 1-4 Maccabees: the cycle shares names but is an independent Ethiopian composition - in 1 Meqabyan, the martyrology of Mäqabis of Benjamin and his five sons under the Chaldean king Ṣiruṣaydan (36 chapters in the 2026 rendering). The 2026 CC0 rendering is an AI-assisted translation of an Amharic text, not a translation of the Gǝʿǝz; no critical edition or peer-reviewed English translation exists. The three books are transmitted together (LIT5841EthioMaccabBooks).
Scan search: restricted scan — 2 candidate(s). Same witness as ethiopic-anonymous-maqabyan: BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 55 is the only manuscript Beta maṣāḥǝft cites for all three books, and 1 Meqabyan occupies ff. 178rc–191rb. No critical edition or Geʿez printed edition was located; the CSCO Scriptores Aethiopici volumes on IA (26 of them, Aeth 1–30) contain no Maccabees volume, and the 2026 CC0 'Three Books of Meqabyan' on IA is an AI translation from Amharic, not a witness.
HTTP 200 metadata; German text layer of 70,054 chars, 0 Geʿez characters. This is the German rendering of the Mäqabǝyan narrative (the martyrology of Mäqabis and his sons), not a Geʿez edition; useful as a control text…
Cite: Tergwame, “The First Book of Meqabyan (1 Meqabyan)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-meqabyan-1