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The Book of Spiritual Medicine (penitential manual for confessors, 47 chapters in the Arabic original)

መጽሐፈ፡ ፈውስ፡ መንፈሳዊ፡ (Maṣḥafa faws manfasāwi); Arabic Vorlage كتاب الطب الروحاني (Kitāb aṭ-ṭibb ar-rūḥānī) · Michael of ʾAṯrīb (bishop of Aṯrīb and Malīǧ, 13th c.) · Arabic original 13th c.; Gǝʿǝz version later (undated in Beta maṣāḥǝft) · canon law · LIT4017Mashafa

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

Nothing in English, and not even a complete edition: K10plus records Michael Kleiner's 2000 work as 'Maṣḥafa faws manfasāwi: die Geʿez-Übersetzung des arabischen Kitāb aṭ-ṭibb ar-rūḥānī ... ; Teiledition und Kommentar (2 Halbbände)', languages ger/ara/grc/gez - a German partial edition plus commentary in two half-volumes (https://sru.k10plus.de/opac-de-627?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=pica.all%3Dfaws%20manfasawi&maximumRecords=6&recordSchema=dc). HOLLIS Primo returns 0 records for 'Mashafa faws manfasawi' and 0 for 'Michael of Athrib'; the Arabic Vorlage is reachable only through W. Hoenerbach's/Coeln's Nomokanon edition cited by Beta maṣāḥǝft (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Mashafa%20faws%20manfasawi&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Nineteen witness entries in Beta maṣāḥǝft (8 EMML microfilms, plus BnF Éth. 122, BL Orient. 549/550/788/789/808, Bruce 86, BAV Cerulli 237, BerlOrFol 595, Petermann II Nachtrag 32). Textual caveat recorded in the TEI abstract: although the Arabic original has 47 chapters, 'in all Ethiopian manuscripts the text ends abruptly after chapter 34' - so the work survives in Ethiopia only in truncated form. The most widely copied penitential handbook of the Ethiopian Church and a primary source for Ethiopian canon-law practice, with no English access at all.

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)
LIT4017Mashafa

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: Michael of ʾAṯrīb — 9 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Synaxarium Alexandrinum
· 1905 · ara
"Synaxarium Alexandrinum." Beryti : E Typographeo catholico, 1905. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159962263203941
Synaxarium Alexandrinum
· 1921 · lat
"Synaxarium Alexandrinum." Romae : K. De Luigi, 1921. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159962263103941
Synaxarium Alexandrinum
· 1905-26 · lat
"Synaxarium Alexandrinum." Beryti, E Typographeo catholico, 1905-26. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990029035680203941
Kitāb al-Sankasār al-jāmiʻ li-akhbār al-anbiyāʾ wa-al-rusul wa-al-shuhadāʾ wa-al-qiddīsīn al-mustaʻmal fī Kanāʾis al-Karāzah al-Marqasīyah fī ayyām wa-Āḥād al-sanah al-Tūtīyah
· 1951-69 · ara
"Kitāb al-Sankasār al-jāmiʻ li-akhbār al-anbiyāʾ wa-al-rusul wa-al-shuhadāʾ wa-al-qiddīsīn al-mustaʻmal fī Kanāʾis al-Karāzah al-Marqasīyah fī ayyām wa-Āḥād al-sanah al-Tūtīyah." al-Qāhirah, Maktabat al-Maḥabbah al-Qubṭīyah al-Arthūdhuksīyah [1951-[69], 1951-69. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072061…
Kitāb al-sankasār al-jāmiʻ li-akhbār al-Anbiyāʼ wa-al-Rusul wa-al-Shuhadāʼ wa-al-Qiddīsīn al-mustaʻmal fī kanāʼis al-Karāzah al-Marqusīyah fī ayyām wa-Āḥād al-sanah al-tūtīyah
· 1951-69 · ara
"Kitāb al-sankasār al-jāmiʻ li-akhbār al-Anbiyāʼ wa-al-Rusul wa-al-Shuhadāʼ wa-al-Qiddīsīn al-mustaʻmal fī kanāʼis al-Karāzah al-Marqusīyah fī ayyām wa-Āḥād al-sanah al-tūtīyah." al-Qāhirah, Maktabat al-Maḥabbah al-Qibṭīyah al-Urthūdhuksīyah, 1951-[69], 1951-69. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/991602…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Book of Spiritual Medicine (penitential manual for confessors, 47 chapters in the Arabic original)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-michael-of-athrib-faws-manfasawi