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Homily on the Annunciation and the Incarnation (eight-part homily cycle read within the Miracles of Mary)

· Anonymous · 18th–19th c. (earliest attestation 1704 for part 3; the cycle as copied is dated c. 1800) · homily · LIT5479MiracleIncarnation; PEMM 510–517

Ethiopic · domain: miracles-mary · researched 2026-11-13

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

All eight parts are PEMM story records 510–517; queried on 2026-11-13, none carries a published English translation. Part 3 (the Visitation, story 512) has three published Amharic records; every other part has no translation of any language at all (e.g. https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us/stories/510, https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us/stories/517). The Beta Masaheft work record LIT5479MiracleIncarnation lists three EMML witnesses (EMML 642, 682, 683) and no translation. HOLLIS 'Ethiopian homily Mary translation' returned no version of this cycle (it returns Amsalu Tefera's Dǝrsanä Ṣǝyon and Eastern Christianity: A Reader): https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20homily%20Mary%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 LOC 'taamra maryam translation' returns nothing relevant.

A homily in eight parts (Annunciation, miraculous conception, Visitation, Gabriel, the Holy Spirit, the home of Mary, the mysteries, Elizabeth) that circulated inside Miracles of Mary manuscripts rather than as an independent book; it survives in only three EMML manuscripts (parts 3 and 8 in one and ten respectively), so the gap is also a survival problem.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT5479MiracleIncarnation
PEMM · HTML · unknown (PEMM/Princeton site terms)
510
PEMM · HTML · unknown (PEMM/Princeton site terms)
517

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Homily on the Annunciation and the Incarnation — 5 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Wider than heaven : eighth-century homilies on the Mother of God
· 2008 · eng
"Wider than heaven : eighth-century homilies on the Mother of God." Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990117234450203941
al-Bishārah al-mufriḥah wa-al-tajassud al-ilāhī
Bīshūy, al-Anbā · 2019 · ara
Bīshūy, al-Anbā. "al-Bishārah al-mufriḥah wa-al-tajassud al-ilāhī." [Barārī Bilqās, Egypt] : Dayr al-Shahīdah Dimyānah lil-Rāhibāt bi-al-Barārī, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155869027503941
The Roads from Bethlehem : Christmas literature from writers ancient and modern
· 1993 · eng
"The Roads from Bethlehem : Christmas literature from writers ancient and modern." Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, c1993. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990032609390203941
On the love of God and other selected writings
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153 · 1996 · eng
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. "On the love of God and other selected writings." New York : Alba House, c1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990075378770203941
Grace in the New Testament
Moffatt, James, 1870-1944 · 1932 · eng
Moffatt, James, 1870-1944. "Grace in the New Testament." New York, R. Long & R.R. Smith, Inc., 1932. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022329040203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Homily on the Annunciation and the Incarnation (eight-part homily cycle read within the Miracles of Mary)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-homily-annunciation-incarnation