Gadla Sama'tat

Gädlä Sämaʿtat
Gädlä Sämaʿtat
Also known as	Spiritual Combat of the Martyrs
Type	Martyrology
Date	15th–16th century
Place of origin	Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Language(s)	Geʽez
Scribe(s)	3 different scribes
Material	Parchment
Size	535 × 380 × 200 mm
Script	Geʽez
Contents	40 vitae of saints and martyrs

Gädlä Sämaʿtat (or Gadla Samāʿtāt,^[1] meaning "Vitae of the Martyrs"^[2] or "Spiritual Combat of the Martyrs") is a 15th-century Geʽez manuscript that contains a compilation of hagiographies. The manuscript is currently held at ʿUra Qirqos, a church near Zäla Ambässa, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia.^[3]

^ Bausi, Alessandro. 2002. La versione etiopica degli Acta Phileae nel Gadla samāʿtāt, Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale. Supplemento, 92 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 2002).
^ Nosnitsin, Denis (2010). First Mission: April–May 2010 Report (PDF). Ethio-SPaRe, Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation and Research. Vol. 1. Hamburg: University of Hamburg.
^ Nosnitsin, Denis (2013). Churches and Monasteries of Tǝgray: A Survey of Manuscript Collections. Supplements to Aethiopica. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-06969-4.

[1] Bausi, Alessandro. 2002. La versione etiopica degli Acta Phileae nel Gadla samāʿtāt, Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale. Supplemento, 92 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 2002).

[2] Nosnitsin, Denis (2010). First Mission: April–May 2010 Report (PDF). Ethio-SPaRe, Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation and Research. Vol. 1. Hamburg: University of Hamburg.

[Nosnitsin_2013-3] Nosnitsin, Denis (2013). Churches and Monasteries of Tǝgray: A Survey of Manuscript Collections. Supplements to Aethiopica. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-06969-4.

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