(1) Manuscripts
Abba Abraham’s manuscript comprises 9,539 (?) pages and is now located at the Bible & Foreign Bible Society Archive at Cambridge University Library (Ref. Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 15).
- A facsimile of Matthew 1 and a specimen of Mark 9 were printed in Platt, Catalogue of Ethiopic Biblical Manuscripts, London 1823. [View online]
- This writer has not checked where the manuscript copies that Asselin sent to prominent recipients can be found today.
- The extensive manuscript in the BFBS archive in Cambridge has apparently not yet been digitised.
(2) Early literature
Dehérain, Henri. “Asselin de Cherville: drogman du consulat de France en Égypte et orientaliste”, Journal des Savants (1916): 176-187, 223-231. [See pp. 183-86; view online (Persée)]
Isenberg, Charles William [i.e. Karl Wilhelm]. Dictionary of the Amharic Language: Amharic and English, and English and Amharic. London: R. Watts [for the CMS], 1841. [HathiTrust]
Jones, William. “Conversations with Abram, an Abyssinian, Concerning the City of Gwender and the Sources of the Nile”, Asiatick Researches 1 (1788): 383-88. [HathiTrust]
Jowett, William. Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, from 1815-1820: In furtherance of the objects of the Church Missionary Society. London: Seeley and Hatchard, 1822. [See p. 198-203; view online]
Owen, John. The History of the Origin and First Ten Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Vol. 3. London: R. Watts, 1820. [On Abraham, see p. 480; Google Books]
(3) Other secondary literature
Ancel, Stéphane. “Yosab II”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 5, ed. A. Bausi, p. 94-95. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014.
Crummey, Donald. “Däbrä Ṣ́äḥay Qʷəsqʷam”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, ed. S. Uhlig, p. 37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.
Kleiner, Michael. “Abu Rumi”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 1, ed. S. Uhlig, p. 53-54. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003.
Meley Mulugetta. “Reflections on Abu Rumi’s Amharic Translation of the Book of Ruth”, Aethiopica 12 (2009), 136-42. [Online version]
Nebeyou Alemu. “Philological and Comparative Study of Abba Abraham’s Matthew Gospel With the Greek and Ge’ez Versions: Some Salient Features”. M.A. thesis (?). Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, 2009.
Smidt, Wolbert G. C. “Matewos”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 5, ed. A. Bausi, p. 421. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.
Störk, Lothar. “Dayr al-Muḥarraq”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, ed. S. Uhlig, p. 116-17. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.
Uhlendorff, Edward. Ethiopia and the Bible (The Schweich Lectures). Oxford, etc.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968. [See p. 62-68]
(4) Cross-references
» Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Excerpts, 1805-50