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The Wəquf: 'A pleasant perfume of sanctity' (also titled Anaphora to Our Lady Mary by Giyorgis)

መዐዘ፡ ቅዳሴ፡ ውኩፍ፡ / Maʿaza qəddāse wəkuf · Attributed to Giyorgis (as the Beta Masaheft title states); authorship uncertain · Undated in the Beta Masaheft record. · liturgy · LIT1817Maazaq

Ethiopic · domain: liturgy · 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 records one edition and no translation: Takla Maryam Semharay Selam, La Messe de Notre Dame dite Agreable parfum de saintete (Rome, 1937), with a Google Books link (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1817Maazaq.xml). The book's title is French but the record labels its language 'Ethiopic', so whether it carries a French translation was not verified; either way no English translation is recorded. The text is not in Harden's thirteen anaphoras (https://archive.org/details/anaphorasofethio0000yait) and not in Daoud's fourteen (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203040904). HOLLIS Primo 'Wquf Ethiopian liturgy' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Wquf%20Ethiopian%20liturgy&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and 'Maṣḥafa məʿraf' likewise 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ma%E1%B9%A3%E1%B8%A5afa%20m%C9%99%CA%BFraf&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Hammerschmidt's clavis no. 20. The Wəquf is not a free-standing anaphora but a chant-like composition performed within the Eucharistic liturgy, which is why it belongs to both the anaphora corpus and the chant corpus. The only separately published edition located is the Rome imprint of 1937; a digitised copy is linked from the Beta Masaheft bibliography record.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
La Messe de Notre Dame dite Agreable parfum de saintete · Takla Maryam Semharay Selam · 1937

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT1817Maazaq

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: Attributed to Giyorgis authorship uncertain — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Wəquf: 'A pleasant perfume of sanctity' (also titled Anaphora to Our Lady Mary by Giyorgis)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-giyorgis-wequf