Vita of the Righteous of Ṗarāqliṭos

It is completed, this book, on the twenty-fifth of the month of Pawn, which is the month of Sane, in the year of mercy 175, in the time of the reign of our king Lebna Dengel, and our metropolitan abuna Marqos, and our archbishop abba Yohannes, and the governor of ʿAgame, Natan, for Base... and the priest Gabaz Täsfa Ḥəywät... and Gärma Ṣəyon, the scribe, who asked me to write this book, while God helps and strengthens his word... and its scribe, Täsfa Ṣəyon, whom I appointed to write this book, my teacher of wisdom, and I who have corrected it, I, Danəʾel, the monk; and in my deeds I am sinful and guilty, and in my learning I am a remnant of the prophets in chronicles, and a son of the apostles in faith, whom Ṗarāqliṭos, the Spirit of Life, has inspired, so that I might write the miracles of his martyrs, the saints, and what has brought me to this point from the time of Mary...

Furthermore, it says that Dānǝʾel “the falāsi” (“the stranger, the wanderer”) is the one who has “translated” (za-ʾaʿlawkǝwwa) the work (the Gadla and Taʾāmmǝra samāʿtāta Ṗarāqliṭos), who is at the same time the one who has written this colophon (“I myself, Dānǝʾel the stranger, am the one who has compiled it”). It says, besides, that Tasfā Ṣǝyon is the name of the scribe whom Dānǝʾel has commissioned to write down the work (“and its scribe is Tasfā Ṣǝyon, whom I have appointed to write this book”). After