Prohibitions for Monks (monastic canons)

Monastic canons / prohibitions for monks (Gǝʿǝz title not recorded in the TEI file) · Anonymous · undated in Beta maṣāḥǝft; single witness BnF Éth. 125 · canon law · LIT4027Prohibitions

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 lists Grébaut 1940 twice, once under 'editions' (pp. 260-266) and once under 'translation' (pp. 266-270), and only BnF Éth. 125 as witness (https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/blob/master/4001-5000/LIT4027Prohibitions.xml). The TEI record does not state the language of that version (Grébaut published in French), so treat it as a French rendering pending a check of the printed article; what is certain is that no English version surfaces in HOLLIS Primo ('Ethiopian monastic rules' returns eight records, none a translation of this text - e.g. the EOTC Sunday School volume 'Monasticism and ascetic life in EOTC', Addis Ababa 2012) or in K10plus (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20monastic%20rules&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Survives, on Beta maṣāḥǝft's evidence, in a single manuscript (BnF Éth. 125, item 7) - flag this in any editorial plan: a translation would rest on one witness and on Grébaut's 1940 text. The prohibition list belongs to the same canonical stratum as the Śǝrʿāta mǝnkʷǝsǝnnā; Bausi 2007 ('Monastic' in EAE) is the orientation cited in the record.

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) LIT4027Prohibitions

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: Prohibitions for Monks — 47 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
The Poetry Demon : Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way Protass, Jason · 2021 · eng	Protass, Jason. "The Poetry Demon : Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way." Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155769326203941
Our only home : a climate appeal to the world Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- · 2020 · eng	Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-. "Our only home : a climate appeal to the world." Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158746922303941
Spiritual dimensions of the holy canons Patsavos, Ēlias I · 2003 · eng	Patsavos, Ēlias I. "Spiritual dimensions of the holy canons." Brookline, Mass. : Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990093283950203941
Food and Faith in Christian Culture · 2011 · eng	"Food and Faith in Christian Culture." New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158719429603941
Doctors and distillers : the remarkable medicinal history of beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails English, Camper · 2022 · eng	English, Camper. "Doctors and distillers : the remarkable medicinal history of beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails." New York : Penguin Books, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156592371803941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Prohibitions for Monks (monastic canons)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-prohibitions-for-monks