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Miracle of Mary: the drowned pilgrim resuscitated after a shipwreck on the Red Sea

· Anonymous · attested from c. 1400 (earliest PEMM manuscript) · hagiography · LIT5002MiracleSeaShipwreck; PEMM 149

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

PEMM story record 149 (query 2026-11-13) lists an Amharic printed version (Täsfa Gäbrä Śəllase) and one unpublished English draft by PEMM staff, and no published English translation (https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us/stories/149). The story appears in 262 of PEMM's 716 complete manuscripts, among the most widely attested miracles in the corpus. The Beta Masaheft record lists no translation at all. It is not among Budge's 110 miracles (PEMM holds 135 Budge 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

The Geʿez incipit describes a great ship coming from the land of the Arabs across the Red Sea carrying pilgrims to Jerusalem with a bishop named Gregory ('ወሀለወት፡ አሐቲ፡ ኃመር፡ ዐባይ፡ … ወሀለዉ፡ ብዙኅ፡ ሰብእ፡ ውስቴታ፡ የሐውሩ፡ ኢየሩሳሌም').

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
LIT5002MiracleSeaShipwreck
PEMM · HTML · unknown (PEMM/Princeton site terms)
149

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 3 candidate(s). Three collatable copies for a story PEMM finds in 262 manuscripts. MEMdavies01 (Marara, Mary Davies collection) is a fourth witness in Beta maṣāḥǝft but its IIIF manifest returns 200 with 0 canvases (no images). BL add. 16192 / Orient 652, IVsuhtelen255, UppEt11 and EMIP02370's siblings are either undigitised or unreachable.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Weiner Codex 233 — miracle at fol. 28r
betamasaheft · EMIP02173 (Weiner Codex 233)
iiif163open-licensenonemsItem corresp LIT5002MiracleSeaShipwreck at fol. 28r (EMIP02173.xml). Manifest 200/163 canvases; page image 200 (2500x1660).
Weiner Codex 335 — miracle at fol. 59v
betamasaheft · EMIP02370 (Portland, EMIP, Weiner Codex 335)
iiif196open-licensenonemsItem corresp LIT5002MiracleSeaShipwreck at fol. 59v in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Manuscripts/master/EMIP/2001-3000/EMIP02370.xml. Manifest 200/196 canvases; sample https://betamasaheft.eu/iiif/EMI…
Vat.et.298 — miracle at fol. 228v
digivatlib · BAV Vat.et.298
iiif500restrictednonemsItem 'A man who drowned when a pilgrim ship sank and was delivered unharmed...' at fol. 228v (BAVet298.xml); manifest 200, 500 canvases.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Miracle of Mary" — 4 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
The Mariology of emperor Zärʼa Yaʻeqob of Ethiopia : texts and translations
Getatchew Haile, 1931-2021 · 1992 · eng
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
· 2014 · eng
"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
Life of Mary
· 18th cent ·
"Life of Mary." 18th cent. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork406789/catalog
Ta'amra Maryam
· late 17th - early 18th cent ·
"Ta'amra Maryam." late 17th - early 18th cent. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork406760/catalog

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Miracle of Mary: the drowned pilgrim resuscitated after a shipwreck on the Red Sea” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-pilgrim-shipwreck