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
PEMM story record 135 (queried 2026-11-13 at https://cms.ethiopicmary.com/stories/135?language=en-us&translation_seq=1) records no published English translation; its translation table contains six Amharic records (Täsfa Gäbrä Śəllase, 1990/1996/2004), one French (Colin 2004) and one unpublished English draft (Jeremy Brown with Ekaterina Pukhovaia, 2022). The story appears in 319 of PEMM's 716 complete manuscripts, so its absence from English is a coverage gap rather than an accident of survival (https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us/stories/135). The Beta Masaheft record lists only Colin2004TaamraMaryam under translations. It is not among Budge's 110 miracles (PEMM holds 135 Budge translation records, none for this story). HOLLIS 'Ethiopian miracles of Mary translation' returns no English version: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20miracles%20of%20Mary%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Origin classified by PEMM as Europe (confirmed). The record's own Geʿez incipit is given (Tarsus in Cilicia, an officer who loved Mary) but no Geʿez title is recorded.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Scan search: open scan — 4 candidate(s). This is the story with the widest attestation in PEMM (319 records, 285 manuscripts) and no published English translation. The 1930s-1969 HMML codex EMML 682 is not relevant here; the HMML witnesses for this story are EMML 2059 f. 84r, EMML 3872 f. 31v, EMML 9002 f. 136r and ~280 others, all login-gated. Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT3693Miracle lists no witnesses on its work page.
PEMM story 135 (https://cms.ethiopicmary.com/stories/135?language=en-us&translation_seq=1, HTTP 200 JSON) lists 'EMIP (EMIP) 2701, f. 27r' under the 1500s; the canonical incipit is quoted 'from EMML (HMML) 2059, f. 84r'…
Getatchew Haile, 1931-2021. "The Mariology of emperor Zärʼa Yaʻeqob of Ethiopia : texts and translations." Roma : Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1992. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990028311540203941
"Matter of faith : an interdisciplinary study of relics and relic veneration in the medieval period." London : The British Museum, [2014]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990143103310203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Miracle of Mary: The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milk”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-deacon-breast-milk