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Book of the Mystery

መጽሐፈ፡ ምሥጢር፡ (Maṣḥafa mǝśṭir) · Giyorgis of Sagla (Giyorgis Walda ʾAmid) · 1424 (Beta Masaheft; two parts) · homily · LIT1952Mashaf

Ethiopic · domain: theology · 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

Beta Masaheft's bibliography for LIT1952Mashaf lists two editions and only their 'Versio' volumes (bm:Yaqob1990MestirVersio, bm:Yaqob1993MestirVersio) - XML at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1952Mashaf.xml. The Harvard record for that CSCO set (MMS 990053813880203941) states the four volumes are: Pt.1 Ethiopian text, Pt.1 'Italian translation and commentary', Pt.2 Ethiopian text, Pt.2 'Italian translation and commentary', language ita;gez - https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Mashafa%20Mestir&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . HOLLIS 'Mestir Giyorgis' returns only that same Italian set; HOLLIS 'Mashafa Mestir English' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Mashafa%20Mestir%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Open Library 'Mashafa Mestir' returns only Italian editions (https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=%22Mashafa+Mestir%22). archive.org advancedsearch for 'mestir' returns no edition or translation of the work. No complete or partial English translation found.

The TEI file is 279 KB and carries transcribed Ge'ez for chapters 1-4 (TraCES transcription on the basis of Hiruie 2007 and Yaqob Beyene's editions; witnesses Gaseča Maṣḥafa Mestir 1, EMML 714, EMML 1191). The work is in two parts and enumerates 27 heresies (the record itself hedges: '27 (?)'); chapter 1 is 'Against Sabellius'. Only the Italian CSCO version covers the whole text, so an English-only reader has no access to it at all.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Il libro del mistero = Maṣḥafa mesṭir · Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 515-516, 532-533 (Scriptores Aethiopici 89-90, 97-98) · Yaqob Beyene · 1990

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT1952Mashaf

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Book of the Mystery" — 4 record(s); match basis title_only.

RecordCitation
New Woman as Agent of Evolutionary Change in Theodore Dreiser’s Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Terror and Wonder of Life and A Gallery of Women
Pasion, Adam Matthew (ALM , Harvard University, 2019) · 2019 · eng
Pasion, Adam Matthew (ALM , Harvard University, 2019). "New Woman as Agent of Evolutionary Change in Theodore Dreiser’s Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Terror and Wonder of Life and A Gallery of Women." Harvard University, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153859748203941
Hey rub-a-dub-dub; a book of the mystery and wonder and terror of life
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 · 1920 · eng
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. "Hey rub-a-dub-dub; a book of the mystery and wonder and terror of life." New York, Boni and Liveright, 1920. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990029032480203941
The Moonlight canto; a selection, being the fifth canto of the first book of the Mystery of the mountain
· 1865 · eng
"The Moonlight canto; a selection, being the fifth canto of the first book of the Mystery of the mountain." London, 1865. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990061283910203941
Ethiopia and the Judeo-Christian tradition : antiquity to modernity
· 2025 · eng
"Ethiopia and the Judeo-Christian tradition : antiquity to modernity." Berlin : Logos Verlag, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160422199303941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Book of the Mystery” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-giyorgis-sagla-mashafa-mestir