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The Order of the Monastic Profession (ritual for receiving the monastic habit)

ሥርዓተ፡ ምንኵስና፡ (Śǝrʿāta mǝnkʷǝsǝnnā) · Anonymous · undated in Beta maṣāḥǝft; the recorded recension is that of BnF Éth. 79 · canon law · LIT3982Serata

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 records a single edition, Grébaut 1940 ('Le habit monastique'), and a single witness, BnF Éth. 79 (https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/blob/master/3001-4000/LIT3982Serata.xml). No English version: HOLLIS Primo 'Serata manekosat' = 0 records; K10plus 'serata manekosat' = 0 records; the only survey cited in the record is Nosnitsin 2010, which is a descriptive article, not a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Serata%20manekosat&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Beta maṣāḥǝft stresses that Śǝrʿāta mǝnkʷǝsǝnnā is a generic title covering several distinct rituals of monastic investiture; the present record is only one recension and rests on a single manuscript (BnF Éth. 79). A translator would have to survey the other recensions in EMML and European collections first. This is the liturgical-canonical counterpart to the monastic canons above and has never been Englished.

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)
LIT3982Serata

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: The Order of the Monastic Profession — 121 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The Syriac Order of Monastic Profession and the Order of Baptism : common structure, imagery and theological themes
Aydin, Polycarpus Augin, 1971- · 2017 · eng, syc
Aydin, Polycarpus Augin, 1971-. "The Syriac Order of Monastic Profession and the Order of Baptism : common structure, imagery and theological themes." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990151375930203941
Monastic profession
· 1998 · eng
"Monastic profession." Petersham, Mass. : St. Bede's Publications, c1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990079574550203941
The structure and content of monastic profession : a juridical study, with particular regard to the practice of the English Benedictine Congregation since the French Revolution
Yeo, Richard · 1982 · eng
Yeo, Richard. "The structure and content of monastic profession : a juridical study, with particular regard to the practice of the English Benedictine Congregation since the French Revolution." Roma : Edizioni Abbazia S. Paolo, 1982. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012082680203941
Equal in monastic profession : religious women in Medieval France
Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938- · 1993, c1991 · eng
Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938-. "Equal in monastic profession : religious women in Medieval France." Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993, c1991. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153556099503941
Monastic institutions; their origin, progress, nature and tendency
Day, Samuel Phillips · 1855 · eng
Day, Samuel Phillips. "Monastic institutions; their origin, progress, nature and tendency." London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990027988780203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Order of the Monastic Profession (ritual for receiving the monastic habit)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-serata-menkosenna