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 164 (queried 2026-11-13 at https://cms.ethiopicmary.com/stories/164?language=en-us&translation_seq=1) records no published English translation; its translation table contains a single unpublished English draft (Jeremy Brown & Dawit Muluneh with Ekaterina Pukhovaia, 2022) and nothing else in any language. The story appears in 277 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/164). The Beta Masaheft record lists no translation at all 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 Byzantium (probably). The Geʿez incipit begins 'ወሀለወት፡ አሐቲ፡ ብእሲት፡ ዘስማ፡ አርሲማ…'.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Scan search: open scan — 3 candidate(s). PEMM 164 reports 277 manuscripts containing the story; Beta maṣāḥǝft's 12 witnesses are the ones with catalogue descriptions and folio loci. BL copies (Add. 16192, Orient 636/638/652) are not reachable — the British Library Digitised Manuscripts viewer now 307-redirects to a generic collection page (service still offline after the 2023 cyber attack). BnF Éthiopien 62 and Cambridge/IVsuhtelen255 have no manifest. No printed edition contains this miracle: it is not among Budge's 110.
msItem with corresp LIT3722Miracle at fol. 128v in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Manuscripts/master/EMIP/2001-3000/EMIP02173.xml; work page https://betamasaheft.eu/works/LIT3722Miracle/main lists it amo…
msItem title 'A nun in prison for her faith prays for two young virgin women who come to visit her' at fol. 44r in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Manuscripts/master/VaticanBAV/et/BAVet298.xml. Manifest 2…
Harvard Hollis
Hollis query: "Miracle of Mary" — 4 record(s); match basis author_title.
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: A nun (ʾArsimā) imprisoned for her faith prays for two young virgin women who come to visit her”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-nun-prison