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
Beta Masaheft LIT1978Mashaf registers editions bm:Praetorius1869Tomar and bm:Bittner1905Brief, and translations bm:Basset1893Tomar (French) and bm:Backus2005Lettre (French, for the Greek version) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1978Mashaf.xml. The 1869 German edition is on archive.org as 'Mazḥafa Tomâr: Das Aethiopische Briefbuch nach drei Handschriften', date 1869, language German, no creator recorded in the item metadata (https://archive.org/details/MazhafaTomar); the editor's first name could not be verified in any catalogue consulted and is therefore omitted. HOLLIS 'Mashafa Tomar' returns 2 records, both French ('Les Apocryphes éthiopiens', 1893-1909 and its 1999 reprint: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Mashafa%20Tomar&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The only English item is a notice, not a translation: C. T. Beke, 'Remarks on the Mats'háfa tomár, or the Book of the letter; an Ethiopic manuscript in the library of the University of Tübingen...', 1848, eng - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Letter%20from%20heaven%20Ethiopic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Treat the work as untranslated into English.
Narrates a letter urging Sunday observance that fell from heaven outside a Roman church during Athanasius' mass; short and long recensions exist, the long one opening መጽሐፈ፡ ጦማር፡ ዘወረደት፡ እምሰማይ፡. Witness registered by Beta Masaheft: BL Add. 16192. The Beke 1848 paper is the only English-language access to the Tübingen manuscript and is a description, not an edition or translation.
Beke, Charles T. (Charles Tilstone), 1800-1874 · 1848? · eng
Beke, Charles T. (Charles Tilstone), 1800-1874. "Remarks on the Mats'háfa tomár, or the Book of the letter; an Ethiopic manuscript in the library of the University of Tübingen; containing an account of a letter which is said to have descended from heaven to St. Athanasius." [London, 1848?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/…
"Exiled in the word : poems & other visions of the Jews from tribal times to present." Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, 1989. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990051918480203941
"A Big Jewish book : poems & other visions of the Jews from tribal times to present." Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1978. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008465720203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Book of the Letter (Letter of Sunday / Letter from Heaven)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-mashafa-tomar