ጥበበ፡ ሳቤላ፡ (Ṭǝbaba Sābelā)
· Anonymous (Ethiopic recension of an Arabic Christian Sibyl apocryphon)
· composition date unknown; Gǝʿǝz version of an Arabic 'Wisdom of Sibyl'
· apocryphon
· LIT2353SibylW
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 Masaheft LIT2353SibylW lists only Schleifer's edition/study (German) and Basset's French rendering, and gives a single Ethiopic witness, London BL Add. 16188 (ms_i.5) (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/2001-3000/LIT2353SibylW.xml). HOLLIS confirms that the German study exists (J. Schleifer, Die Erzählung der Sibylle: Ein Apokryph nach den karschunischen, arabischen und äthiopischen Handschriften zu London, Oxford, Paris und Rom, Wien 1910, https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Sibylle%20Schleifer&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and that Basset's 'La Sagesse de Sibylle' (1900) is French (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,La%20sagesse%20de%20Sibylle&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the query 'Wisdom of the Sibyl Ethiopic' returns nothing. NASSCAL e-Clavis has a Sibylline Oracles entry but no Ethiopic Sibyl entry (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/).
Single Ethiopic manuscript (BL Add. 16188) per Beta Masaheft. Basset's French version was reissued in the Milan 'Les apocryphes éthiopiens' series (Archè, 1976-), where the Harvard record lists 'X. La sagesse de Sibylle' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,La%20sagesse%20de%20Sibylle&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Existing translations recorded
Edition / series
La Sagesse de Sibylle (Les Apocryphes éthiopiens X) · Les Apocryphes éthiopiens · René Basset (French) · 1900
Die Erzählung der Sibylle: Ein Apokryph nach den karschunischen, arabischen und äthiopischen Handschriften · J. Schleifer (German, with edition) · 1910
Scan search: open scan — 4 candidate(s). Beta maṣāḥǝft names eight witnesses (BL add. 16188, BL Orient 11719/818, BnF Éthiopien 146/157/205, Abbadie 134/193). The five BnF copies are all digitised on Gallica (arks verified from the manuscript TEI: btv1b10087881b for Abbadie 134 fol. 110ra, btv1b10087880w for Abbadie 193 fol. 9ra) but every Gallica request from this host is 403, so they are restricted candidates only. BL add. 16188 — the single witness cited in the dossier — is unreachable: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_16188_fs001r returns 307 to /collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives. The only open scan is Basset's French version, which carries the translation but no Ge'ez: useful as a reading text, not as a textual base. Schleifer's 1910 'Die Erzählung der Sibylle' (the edition that would supply the Ge'ez with the Karshuni and Arabic) is not on IA ('erzählung der sibylle', 'sibylle schleifer' -> only unrelated modern novels); e-rara is behind a browser-verification wall, MDZ is JS-only with no server-side results, and onb.digital returned 504 twice.
Duncker, Patricia, 1951-. "Sophie and the Sibyl : a Victorian romance." New York : Bloomsbury, 2015. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990144579080203941
Dickson, Gwen Griffith. "Johann Georg Hamann's Relational Metacriticism." Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2010]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158716429803941
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- · 2005 · eng
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-. "Jewish cult and Hellenistic culture : essays on the Jewish encounter with Hellenism and Roman rule." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097305040203941
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- · 1997 · eng
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-. "Seers, sibils, and sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism." Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990076717310203941
Shepard, Paul, 1925-1996. "Environmental : essays on the planet as a home." Boston : Houghton-Mifflin Co., [1971]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010661270203941