Mazgaba Maṣāḥəft

CAe 1461

 

Titles

  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (general record), Contendings of the Apostles
  • Arabic version
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (first recension), Contendings of the Apostles
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (second recension), Contendings of the Apostles
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (third recension), Contendings of the Apostles
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (fourth recension), Contendings of the Apostles
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (fifth recension), Contendings of the Apostles
  • ገድለ፡ ሐዋርያት፡, Gadla ḥawāryāt (sixth recension), Contendings of the Apostles

Description

The Christian collection of the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles is the main Ethiopian collection of apostolic Apocrypha. It includes single texts, mainly Preaching, Martyrdom, and Acts of the Apostles, translated from Arabic. The terminus ante quem for the collection is provided by BNFet52, datable to 1379. However, the title G.Ḥ. already appears in an inventory of books found in the well-known thirteenth-century Four Gospels manuscript (EMML 1832) of Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos (the so-called Four Gospels book of ʾIyasus Moʾa). Six recensions are known according to , depending on the Vorlage and the selection and order of texts, see , , , , and .

Contributors

  • Alessandro Bausi, general editor
  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
  • Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
  • Dorothea Reule, contributor

History

  • Eugenia Sokolinski on :
    added divs, bibl, abstract
  • Dorothea Reule on :
    Added keywords
  • Dorothea Reule on :
    Title changed and bibliography added
  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo on :
    Created file from google spreadsheet
  • Eugenia Sokolinski on :
    CREATED: text record