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
· LIT5840SecondEthioMaccabees
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/5001-6000/LIT5840SecondEthioMaccabees.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 (a second narrative in the same cycle (21 chapters per the 2026 English 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 — 4 candidate(s). LIT5840SecondEthioMaccabees is a thin record: one attestation (BNFabb55) and no bibliography; the parallel records LIT1819Maccab (=1 Ethiopian Maccabees), LIT5839 (=3rd) and LIT5841EthioMaccabBooks carry the same single manuscript. There is no critical edition of the Meqabyan cycle, so 'edition-of-work' here means a manuscript copy of the whole three-book block. Do not confuse: LIT4302Maccab1/LIT4303Maccab2 are the Vulgate-derived 1–2 Maccabees and are what EMIP00604/EMIP00693 (a digitised printed Bible, Gǝʿǝz + Amharic) contain — those are not this work. Internet Archive searches for 'Ethiopic Maccabees' return 0; the only IA item is the Horovitz article.
HMML record (work_id EMML515): Qaċanē Dabra Salām Madḫānē Ālam Church, 1900-1975, 106 leaves, single item 'Ethiopic Books of Maccabees' — i.e. the whole Meqabyan cycle, not the Vulgate-derived 1–2 Maccabees. Reading roo…
HMML record (work_id EMML6355): Mannāgašā Mārqos Church, 1925, 111 leaves, 'Ethiopic Books of Maccabees'. Reading room HTTP 200, manifest HTTP 200 (113 canvases). IIIF manifest is public but image files are not delivere…
_djvu.txt HTTP 200, 70,054 characters; middle sample is continuous readable German (Latin-script OCR of a 1905 print, ordinary OCR defects such as 'zuverbrennen' for 'zu verbrennen'); zero Ethiopic characters in the who…
Cite: Tergwame, “The Second Book of Meqabyan (2 Meqabyan)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-meqabyan-2