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
The Beta Masaheft record has neither edition nor translation, only a note pointing to the printed Missal (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/4001-5000/LIT4715MashafaN.xml). HOLLIS Primo 'Book of the Assistant Priest Ethiopic' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Book%20of%20the%20Assistant%20Priest%20Ethiopic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Daoud's Missal translates the preparatory service and fourteen anaphoras, and its table of contents has no section for the assistant priest's excerpts (verified through https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203040904), and Harden translates anaphoras only.
A short book, but liturgically load-bearing: it holds the passages the assistant priest reads aloud during the liturgy, so the published English Missals leave a gap in the actual celebration even where the anaphoras are translated. The record describes it as 'a collection of passages excerpted from the Missal, which are read only by the assistant priest during the liturgy' and links each excerpt to a section of LIT1960Mashaf.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Scan search: no scan located — 1 candidate(s). The work is a modern compilation: its only cited source is the printed 1962 Addis Ababa Maṣḥafa qəddāse (bibliographic reference bm:1962Qeddase), and Beta maṣāḥǝft records no listWit and no manuscript attestation of LIT4715MashafaN itself. Internet Archive has no Ethiopic Missal (queries for 'missal'+amh, 'mashafa qeddase', the Geʿez string, and 1020 language:amh texts return nothing relevant); HMML indexes no item with 'nəfq'/'nefq'/'assistant priest' in its titles among 14,691 records. Scans of the enclosing Missal do exist (139 Missal manuscripts in Beta maṣāḥǝft, many EMIP with open IIIF; EMIP00027 sampled here), but none can be shown to be this work. Status therefore no-scan-located for the work, with a Missal facsimile recorded as an uncertain container.
TEI (EMIP/1-1000/EMIP00027.xml) has msItems ref LIT1960Mashaf, LIT1960Mashaf#SerataQeddase and six anaphoras; extent i + 129 leaves; IIIF manifest HTTP 200 with 170 canvases (verified 2026-11-13). The Maṣḥafa nəfq is by…
"Chaucer's Monk's tale and Nun's priest's tale : an annotated bibliography, 1900 to 2000." Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : published in association with the University of Rochester by University of Toronto Press, c2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990120275920203941
Potter, William W. (William Warren), 1837-1911 · 1996 · eng
Potter, William W. (William Warren), 1837-1911. "One surgeon's private war : doctor William W. Potter of the 57th New York." Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub., c1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072112850203941
Blackwell, George, 1546 or 1547-1613. "Mr. George Blackvvel, (made by Pope Clement 8. Arch-priest of England) his answeres vpon sundry his examinations : together, with his approbation and taking of the Oath of allegeance: and his letter written to his assistants, and brethren, moouing them not onely to take the said…
"The late barbarous and inhumane cruelties inflicted upon certain persons called Quakers for their peaceable religious meetings, in the county of Leicester, by the instigation of Thomas Cotten, priest, and divers officers of the parish of Broughton, and his man being present when some of these wretched abuses were tra…
Cater, Samuel, -1711. "A relation of some of the most material matters that passed in a publick dispute at Thriploe in Cambridgeshire the 15th day of the 2d month 1676 between Francis Holdcraft and Joseph Odde his assistant, both Presbyterian priests, on the one party, and Samuel Cater with some others of the Friends…
Cite: Tergwame, “Book of the Assistant Priest (Maṣḥafa nəfq)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-mashafa-nefq