no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
NASSCAL e-Clavis (ECCA 128, created November 2024) has no English section at all: the only modern translation listed is German (Hans Förster, Transitus Mariae: Beiträge zur koptischen Überlieferung, GCS 14, Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2006, German translation pp. 15-16, of Vienna K7589) (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/homily-on-the-dormition-of-the-virgin-coptic-fragments/). The Coptic editions are Förster 2006 (Vienna K7589, pp. 13-15), Hoehne 1915 (Berlin fragment, ZAS 52, pp. 126-28) and Wessely 1909-1917. HOLLIS 'Forster Transitus Mariae koptischen Uberlieferung' returns only the German edition (language ger;cop): https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Forster%20Transitus%20Mariae%20koptischen%20Uberlieferung&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 .
Only one of the three folios has been published; the homily begins with a chronology of Mary's life (birth of Jesus when she was 13, crucifixion at 48, death at 60) and is one of the Coptic Transitus Mariae witnesses. No English translation exists; the work is a genuine gap, but any translation would cover only the published folio.
Existing translations recorded
Edition / series
Transitus Mariae: Beiträge zur koptischen Überlieferung · GCS 14, Neutestamentliche Apokryphen 2 · Hans Förster (edition with German translation) · 2006
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: open scan — 1 candidate(s). Hoehne's third text (pp. 126-128) is the Dormition fragment from Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Orient. fol. 1350, i.e. the editio princeps of one of the three folios; the German translation on those pages carries the Dormition dialogue ('deine geistliche Milch'), the Coptic column is unOCRable in this text layer. Re-OCR would need a Coptic model (the repo has no tesseract 'cop' pack installed; OCR4All/Calamity models from Coptic Scriptorium would be the route). Not located: any digitised surrogate of the Vienna folio K7589 - papyri.info returns an Anubis JS challenge (HTTP 200, no records), papyrus.onb.ac.at does not resolve (000), onb.ac.at/sammlungen/papyrussammlung/katalog/ is 404; the Foerster 2006 GCS 14 edition is in-copyright print with no scan found.
HTTP 200 on https://archive.org/download/zeitschriftfr52brug/zeitschriftfr52brug_djvu.txt (446,525 B). 'Inhalt des 52. Bandes' in the text derivative lists 'Hoehne, G. Drei koptisch-saidische Texte aus der Koeniglichen…
Shoemaker, Stephen J., 1968-. "The dormition and assumption apocrypha." Leuven : Peeters Publishers, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153736017803941
Cite: Tergwame, “Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin (Coptic fragments)”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anonymous-dormition-virgin-homily-fragments