The only complete rendering of the Ethiopic corpus is Italian: Alessandro Bausi, Il Sēnodos etiopico: canoni pseudoapostolici (CSCO, Peeters 1995), which K10plus records twice, once as '[Text]' in Gǝʿǝz and once as '[Übersetzung]' with language ita (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Dsenodos%20etiopico&maximumRecords=6&recordSchema=dc). Neither K10plus ('senodos englisch', 0 records) nor HOLLIS Primo ('Sinodos Ethiopic', 'Sinodos English translation', 'Senodos manuscript') returns any English version of the collection; HOLLIS returns the Italian CSCO volume and a 1983 British Library microform of the Gǝʿǝz text (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Sinodos%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 English does exist for individual canons, but always from the Greek or Coptic Vorlage (the Apostolic Canons in NPNF II-14; the Canones ecclesiastici in Horner 1904), never from this Ethiopic corpus. Status therefore 'partial': the corpus as such has no English translation.
The single richest canon-law work in the Ethiopian tradition and the weakest English coverage relative to its importance: Beta maṣāḥǝft lists 82 witness entries, 39 of them EMML microfilms (e.g. EMML 362, 404, 503, 1189, 1843, 3515) plus BL Orient 481/793-796, BnF Abb. 65, BnF Éth. 95/121/181, BAV Et. 1-2, BerlOrFol 396/398/3117 and Tanasee 29. No word count is given: the TEI record has a full structural table of contents (sub-works LIT2114, LIT2639-LIT2693) but no transcribed text. Editions: Fell 1871 (Canones apostolorum Aethiopice) and Bausi 1995; Bausi 2010 (EAE 'Senodos') is the standard orientation. Domain caveat worth recording next to this entry: the other pillar of Ethiopic canon law, the Fǝtḥa nagaśt (LIT1395Fethan), is deliberately absent from this list because it does have a complete English translation - Paulos Tzadua (tr.), Peter L. Strauss (ed.), The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings, Addis Ababa 1968, reprinted Carolina Academic Press 2009 (Beta maṣāḥǝft lists Paulos1968FethaNagast among translations; HOLLIS holds both the 1968 Haile Sellassie I University and the 2009 Carolina Academic Press records). Its companion volume, Maṣḥafa Qalemǝnṭos, is a different matter and is listed separately here.
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| ... Triennial sessions of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States | "... Triennial sessions of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States." Philadelphia : Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1914-1934. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159511206203941 |
| White book of the synod of New England | "White book of the synod of New England." East Northfield, Mass : [The Synod], 1959-1973. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990144743570203941 |
| Statistical year-book of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states for the year | "Statistical year-book of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states for the year." St. Louis : Concordia Pub. House, 1919-1947. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160359098103941 |
| Statistical year-book of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states for the year .. | "Statistical year-book of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states for the year ..." St. Louis : Concordia Pub. House, 1919-1947. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990003815950203941 |
| The spelling book of the general synod's Sabbath School Union, of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the United States of America | "The spelling book of the general synod's Sabbath School Union, of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the United States of America." New York, The Board of managers, [1837?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160364976803941 |