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Miracles of Mary (Taʾammǝra Māryām)

ተአምረ፡ ማርያም፡ · Anonymous (Ethiopian Orthodox tradition; compiled and expanded over several centuries) · c. 14th–18th c.; individual miracles are attested in manuscripts from c. 1300–1400 and th… · hagiography · LIT2384Taamme; PEMM (1,010 story records)

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

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

PEMM's catalogue holds 1,010 story records. Reading each record's translation table on 2026-11-13 (e.g. https://cms.ethiopicmary.com/stories/135?language=en-us&translation_seq=1), 229 stories (23%) have a published English translation (235 records: Budge 135, Getatchew Haile 79, Amsalu Tefera 17, Cerulli 2, Kleiner/Belcher 1, Six 1), against 179 with a published French translation (Colin 2004) and 401 with published Amharic. The largest single English selection, E. A. Wallis Budge, One Hundred and Ten Miracles of Our Lady Mary (London: Medici Society, 1923; reprinted Oxford 1933), covers 110 miracles only, from a handful of British Library and Oslo manuscripts. Macomber's handlist enumerating 642 miracles remains unpublished (Beta Masaheft abstract for LIT2384Taamme). PEMM's own c. 437 complete English translations are tagged 'Complete unpublished translation', i.e. not published. A HOLLIS search for 'Ethiopian miracles of Mary translation' returns Budge 1923/1933, Getachew Haile 2013 (45 Dabra Zämäddo miracles) and no other 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

Umbrella record for every collection of Miracles of Mary that includes introductory texts; LIT3585Taamme covers collections without them and LIT5673AkkonuColl the fixed 33-miracle ʾAkko-nu bǝʾsi cycle. Budge first edited the Ethiopic texts of Lady Meux MSS 2–5 with an English introduction and partial translations (1900, https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008690600), then republished translations in Legends (1922) and a separate selection of 110 miracles (1923). Only those two Budge selections, Getachew Haile's 45 Dabra Zämäddo miracles (a c. 1900 recension), Getachew Haile's Zärʾa Yaʿqob texts and a few journal pieces are in English. French coverage (Colin's translation of the printed church edition) is broader than English. The three Budge/Colin/Getachew items are selections, not complete editions, so the collection as such has no complete English translation.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
One Hundred and Ten Miracles of Our Lady Mary · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1923
Legends of Our Lady Mary the Perpetual Virgin and Her Mother Hanna · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1922
Voices from Däbrä Zämäddo: Acts of Abba Bärtälomewos and Abba Yohannes [and] 45 Miracles of Mary · Äthiopistische Forschungen 79 · Getatchew Haile · 2013
Le livre éthiopien des miracles de Marie (Taamra Mâryâm) · Gérard Colin · 2004

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT2384Taamme
PEMM · HTML · unknown (PEMM/Princeton site terms)
stories

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 6 candidate(s). Only a selection of the collection has ever been edited: Budge 1900 (Ethiopic text of Lady Meux MSS 2–5) is the open public-domain print with a working text layer; Budge 1923 ('One hundred and ten miracles', English only) exists on IA but is access-restricted lending (onehundredtenmir0000budg/.eawa, access-restricted-item=true, no downloadable text) and contains no Ge'ez, so it is not listed. Rounding out the witnesses: BnF Éthiopien 60 (ark:/12148/btv1b10093449p), 61 (btv1b10099818k), Abbadie 102 (btv1b100914617), 114 (btv1b52504901k), 91 (btv1b10087898w) are digitised but Gallica returns 403 from here (restricted, not downloaded); BL copies unavailable through the offline BL viewer. The Amharic church edition (Täsfa Gäbrä Śəllase) and Colin's French translation are not on IA (IA 'ተአምረ ማርያም' and 'miracles of mary' + gez queries: only the Budge items above).

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
The miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the life of Hanna (Saint Anne), an…
internet-archive · gri_33125008690600
pdf900public-domainpoorText layer sampled at the middle of https://archive.org/download/gri_33125008690600/gri_33125008690600_djvu.txt (HTTP 206, Range from 626,109 of 1,252,219 bytes): 7,874 Ge'ez characters, 1,397 word separators (፡/።). Ge'…
Taʾamera Māryām (Ethiopic codex, 17th c.)
loc · LC Eth. Ms 49 AFS Cage / https://www.loc.gov/item/2021356021/
iiif410public-domainnoneItem JSON https://www.loc.gov/item/2021356021/?fo=json -> 200 (536,326 bytes) at the start of the session; resources carry 410 jp2 pages; sample page https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/public:amed:2021356021:0206/…
T'amera Māryām (Ethiopic codex)
loc · LC Eth MS. / https://www.loc.gov/item/2024422571/
iiif472public-domainnoneItem JSON https://www.loc.gov/item/2024422571/?fo=json -> 200 (622,172 bytes) at the start of the session; 472 jp2 pages; sample https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/public:amed:2024422571:0237/full/pct:25.0/0/defau…
Miracles of Mary & St. George Devotional, c. 20th century
internet-archive · ptsem_ethiopian_mss_8-B (Princeton Theological Seminary, Ms Eth 9)
pdf104public-domainnonedjvu.txt sampled mid-file (52,197 chars, 60.5 % Ethiopic) but the output is character soup with dotted separators, not words; tesseract -l amh re-OCR of page images would be required. Text derivative: https://archive.or…
Vatican Taʾammǝra Māryām codices
digivatlib · BAV Vat.et.24 / Vat.et.29 / Vat.et.8
iiif202restrictednoneThree manifests verified 200: Vat.et.24 (202 canvases), Vat.et.29 (65), Vat.et.8 (171), all with the BAV copyright line in the manifest. Beta maṣāḥǝft lists all three among the 164 witnesses of LIT2384Taamme.
EMIP/EMML Taʾammǝra Māryām codices with open IIIF
betamasaheft · EMIP00127 (Alwan Codex 13) / EMML682
iiif279open-licensenone90 of the 164 witnesses of LIT2384Taamme return a Beta maṣāḥǝft IIIF manifest with canvases (verified one by one from the work page's witness list on 2026-11-13), including Ethio-SPaRe ES* codices, EMIP 00xxx/02xxx and…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Miracles of Mary" — 12 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Miracles of Mary : apparitions, legends, and miraculous works of the blessed Virgin Mary
Durham, Michael S. (Michael Schelling), 1935- · 1995 · eng
Durham, Michael S. (Michael Schelling), 1935-. "Miracles of Mary : apparitions, legends, and miraculous works of the blessed Virgin Mary." [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1995. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990063472930203941
The miracles of Mary : everyday encounters of beauty and grace
Curran, Bridget, 1980- · 2010 · eng
Curran, Bridget, 1980-. "The miracles of Mary : everyday encounters of beauty and grace." Blackrock Co., Dublin : Mercier Press, 2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990123564420203941
The miracles of Mary : a seventeenth-century Ethiopian manuscript
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford · 2002, ©2002 · eng
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. "The miracles of Mary : a seventeenth-century Ethiopian manuscript." Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2002], ©2002, 2002, ©2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159874510003941
The miracles of Mary in twelfth-century France
· 2024 · eng
"The miracles of Mary in twelfth-century France." Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158206720303941
Voices from Däbrä Zämäddo : acts of Abba Bärtälomewos and Abba Yohạnnes : 45 miracles of Mary
· 2013 · gez, eng
"Voices from Däbrä Zämäddo : acts of Abba Bärtälomewos and Abba Yohạnnes : 45 miracles of Mary." Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990139002900203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Miracles of Mary (Taʾammǝra Māryām)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-taammera-maryam