The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman / written by Galawdewos ; translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Ethiopic Publication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2015Description: xxxiv, 500 pages ; 27 cmISBN: - 9780691164212
- 0691164215
- Gadla ʼEmna Walata Péṭros. English.
- 281.75092 23
- BR1725.N42 G33 2015
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A "gädl" or hagiography, originally written by Gälawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the text / Wendy Laura Belcher -- Manuscripts of the text and earlier translations / Wendy Laura Belcher -- Introduction to the translation of the text / Michael Kleiner -- The Ethiopian script and its translation / Michael Kleiner -- The translation of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The translation of the Tä'amerä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Summaries of additional Tä'amerä Wälättä P̣eṭros -- Summary of the history of Walatta Petros's community (in MSS J and I only) -- The translation of the Mälke'a Wälättä P̣eṭros -- The translation of the Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros.
English, translated from Ethiopic (Geez).
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