Zəmmāre (chant collection)

ዝማሬ፡ / Zəmmāre · Attributed to Yārēd (traditional) · Undated; traditional attribution to Yārēd māḫletāwi recorded in the Beta Masaheft relatio… · liturgy · LIT2610Zemmar

Ethiopic · domain: liturgy · 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

The Beta Masaheft record carries a single secondary reference (Habtemichael Kidane, 'Zəmmare', Encyclopaedia Aethiopica V, 2014, 175b-176b) and no edition or translation at all (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/2001-3000/LIT2610Zemmar.xml). No English translation located: HOLLIS Primo 'Zemmare Ethiopian' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Zemmare%20Ethiopian&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and 'Ethiopian church music zema' returns recordings and one Amharic history of Yared's chant, not a translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20church%20music%20zema&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The general English surveys of Ethiopian chant (Shelemay and Jeffery, Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology, A-R Editions 1993-1997, 3 vols, https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990036390940203941) present 'a selection of liturgical portions' with facsimiles and notation, not a translation of the Zəmmāre.

The Zəmmāre is a chant collection of the Yaredian tradition rather than a single fixed book; the Beta Masaheft record is a general work record without text divisions, so its exact compass is not established. Shelemay and Jeffery's anthology presents selected liturgical portions in facsimile, notation and recording rather than as translated texts, so it documents the repertoire without translating the Zəmmāre.

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 LIT2610Zemmar

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: Attributed to Yārēd — 2 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Mermaid Club, Revere House, May 28, 1891 [To] Mr. Howe, [Color Sketch of Harvard Yard attributed to George Santayana on cover of Menu for Mermaid Club Dinner] Santayana, George 1863-1952, American · 1891 ·	Santayana, George 1863-1952, American. "Mermaid Club, Revere House, May 28, 1891 [To] Mr. Howe, [Color Sketch of Harvard Yard attributed to George Santayana on cover of Menu for Mermaid Club Dinner]." 1891. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork222746/catalog
Tezeta and Transmission : Éthiopiques (1997) and the Asymmetrical Globalization of Ethiopian Jazz Aklog, Arsema (AB, Harvard University, 2026) · 2026 · eng	Aklog, Arsema (AB, Harvard University, 2026). "Tezeta and Transmission : Éthiopiques (1997) and the Asymmetrical Globalization of Ethiopian Jazz." [not published], 2026. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162274906503941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Zəmmāre (chant collection)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-yared-zemmare