partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
Beta Masaheft knows 12 British Library manuscripts (BL Or. 602–607 and others) and records no translation; the only bibliography item is a study (bm:Witakowski2014NagaraMaryam). PEMM files 67 story units under 'Book of Nagara Maryam'; on 2026-11-13 not one of them carried a published English translation (36 had PEMM's own unpublished English drafts). The single English rendering found is Budge 1922, 'The History of the Flight of the Virgin Mary to Mount Lebanon' (pp. 202–235, from BL Or. 604, f. 112a), which covers the Lebanon/Gigar episode that PEMM splits into units 625–628: https://archive.org/details/LegendsOfOurLadyMary . HOLLIS 'Nagara Maryam' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nagara%20Maryam&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 LOC returns 0. Jutta Sperling's 2026 African Arts article (doi:10.1162/afar.a.842, pp. 44–63) is an art-historical study, not an edition.
PEMM's translation tables record no published English for any of the 67 units (36 have only the project's unpublished drafts), yet Budge 1922's Lebanon section does render the episode PEMM files as units 625–628; coverage is therefore partial in practice and invisible in the database, which is why the entry is marked 'partial'. The work survives in at least 12 British Library manuscripts and in the printed church collections; it was widely read on the three Marian feast days for which it supplies lections.
Scan search: restricted scan — 2 candidate(s). Beta maṣāḥǝft LIT2051Nagara (works page, HTTP 200) names twelve witnesses: BL Oriental 602, 603, 604, 605, 607, 790, 13223, BL Additional 16193, BnF Éthiopien d'Abbadie 102. None is digitised in a usable form here: the BL records still point at the British Library's own viewer (https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_604_f001r), which now answers HTTP 307 (Digitised Manuscripts still down after the 2023 cyberattack), and the BnF record https://betamasaheft.eu/manuscripts/BNFabb102 yields a stub IIIF manifest with no canvases. BL Or. 604 is 137 leaves. CSCO check: Chaîne's Apocrypha de Beata Maria Virgine (CSCO 039/040 = Aeth 22–23) is on IA, but its French text layer contains 0 occurrences of 'Nagara', so it is not an edition of this work. The verified images are the restricted HMML EMML 682 manifest and Budge's English translation.
https://archive.org/metadata/LegendsOfOurLadyMary (HTTP 200): Budge 1922, 470 images, PD mark licence, eng. This is the English rendering of the Lebanon episode from BL Or. 604, f. 112a, i.e. a translation derivative of…
Harvard Hollis
Hollis query: "Story of Mary" — 249 record(s); match basis author_title.
Spencer, George E., Mrs. "The story of Mary." Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972 [c1885], 1972 c1885. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990066470300203941
Douglas, John, Mrs., -1905. "Life story of Mary Lyon : founder of Mount Holyoke College." Minneapolis : Beard Art and Stationery, 1897. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024500750203941
Harland, Marion, 1830-1922. "The story of Mary Washington." New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990067216400203941
Hunter, Edward, 1902-1978. "The story of Mary Liu." New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy [1957]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990053608230203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Story of Mary (Nagara Māryām, also titled Gadla Māryām / Zenāha la-ʾƎgzǝʾtǝna Māryām)”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-nagara-maryam