Ethiopic Psalter (Mazmura Dāwit): the Psalms with the appended canticles and Song of Songs

ዳዊት፡ (Dāwit) · Anonymous (Ethiopic Bible translation; Psalms ascribed to David) · 4th-7th century (translation from Greek) · other · LIT2701Dawit

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

No English translation of the Ethiopic Psalter was located. HOLLIS Primo (any,contains,'Ethiopic Psalter') returns 14 records: the Rome 1513 Ge'ez editio princeps ('[The Psalms, Canticles, Song of songs, etc. in Ethiopic]', per Marcellum Silber, 1513), manuscript records, and septuagint-studies volumes, but no English rendering (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopic%20Psalter&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 K10plus 'aethiopischer Psalter' returns 3 records, all text editions or a manuscript description (a 1900 Ge'ez 'Mazmûrât za Dâwît', an 18th-century Psalter manuscript, and the German 'Ein äthiopischer Psalter', 2011), none an English translation (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Daethiopischer%20Psalter&maximumRecords=8&recordSchema=dc). The modern-language access is Latin: Hiob Ludolf, Psalterium Davidis aethiopice et latine (Frankfurt 1701), digitized with its Latin translation by the 'Ethiopic Bible' project (https://www.tau.ac.il/~hacohen/Psalm/Information.html). Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT2701Dawit (https://betamasaheft.eu/LIT2701Dawit) has no bibliography div at all, i.e. no edition or translation is registered for the work.

Beta maṣāḥǝft calls the Ethiopic Psalter 'one of the most widespread works of Ethiopic literature'; the 1513 Rome print in HOLLIS is titled '[The Psalms, Canticles, Song of songs, etc. in Ethiopic]', which shows how the book was packaged - Psalms plus canticles plus the Song of Songs - and any translation would have to carry that composite. English users currently depend on translations of the Greek or Hebrew Psalter, not the Ethiopic version.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Source and licence
other · HTML · Ludolf 1701 edition is public domain; re-typed text by the 'Ethiopic Bible' project, no licence stated tau-ethiopic-bible-psalter

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Record	Citation
15th century Ethiopic psalter depicting King Solomon · 15th century ·	"15th century Ethiopic psalter depicting King Solomon." 15th century. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork83537/catalog

Cite: Tergwame, “Ethiopic Psalter (Mazmura Dāwit): the Psalms with the appended canticles and Song of Songs” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-david-psalter