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
· LIT5839ThirdEthioMaccabees
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/LIT5839ThirdEthioMaccabees.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 (the third book of the Ethiopic Maccabean cycle, transmitted with the other two). 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: open scan — 5 candidate(s). The Ethiopic Maccabean cycle is transmitted inside Bible codices, so the witnesses are the only Ge'ez textual base: three open EMIP/EMML codices (Addis Ababa x2, Portland/EMIP 693) plus the Paris codex, which is digitised but blocked. No critical edition of 3 Meqabyan exists; the 1905 German item is a translation and (on the page samples) carries no Ge'ez, so it cannot feed a Ge'ez pipeline. The Amharic print beteyared-book-23991 is 1 Meqabyan only ('ሙሉ ንባቡ በአማርኛ'), not the third book. CSCO on IA holds no Scriptores Aethiopici volume; HMML prints of EMML 652 are the same film surfaced by Beta maṣāḥǝft.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Manuscripts/master/ParisBNF/abb/BNFabb55.xml: idno facs=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525112698, msItem title '3 Ethiopian Book Maccabees' with corresp LIT5839Thir…
Cite: Tergwame, “The Third Book of Meqabyan (3 Meqabyan)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-meqabyan-3