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Anaphora of St James, the Lord's Brother

አኰቴተ፡ ቍርባን፡ ዘያዕቆብ፡ / ʾAkkʷateta qʷərbān za-Yāʿqob · Attributed to James, the Lord's brother · Undated; attested in a Paris manuscript known to Harden (1928, 8), who does not date it. · liturgy · LIT1101Anapho

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

The Beta Masaheft record has no edition and no translation in either listBibl, and no Hammerschmidt clavis number (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1101Anapho.xml). Harden's introduction is the only notice located that states its manuscript attestation: after listing the fourteen anaphoras of the Missal he writes that 'one MS. now in Paris has two more, one bearing the name of St. James the Lord's brother, and the other that of St. Cyril' - and he translates neither (https://archive.org/details/anaphorasofethio0000yait, p. 8). The anaphora is absent from Daoud's fourteen (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203040904). HOLLIS Primo 'Anaphora of Saint James Ethiopic' returns one record, Eastern Christianity: A Reader (ed. J. Edward Walters, Eerdmans 2021), whose Ethiopic section was checked and contains inscriptions of ʿEzana, the Homily on Frumentius, the Synaxarion on Yared, Kəbrä Nägäśt, Miracles of Mary, Zärʾa Yaʿəqob's Book of the Trinity and an amulet - no anaphora (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Anaphora%20of%20Saint%20James%20Ethiopic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Harden implies, without saying so explicitly, that he knew this anaphora from one Paris manuscript only; the manuscript is not identified in the Beta Masaheft record, so the narrow-attestation claim rests on Harden 1928 alone and should be re-checked against a catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale Ge'ez holdings. The Beta record's title has an editorial '<!--to be completed-->' against both the Ge'ez title and its transliteration, i.e. the identification itself is provisional.

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
LIT1101Anapho

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 James the Lords brother — 18 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Just James : the brother of Jesus in history and tradition
Painter, John · 1997 · eng
Painter, John. "Just James : the brother of Jesus in history and tradition." Columbia, S. C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990076390560203941
A guide to Heaven from the world [i.e., Word]: or Good counsel how to close savingly with Christ : Some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him. : And especially rules for the strict and due observation of the Lord's Day. : [Text]
Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691 · 1765 · eng
Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691. "A guide to Heaven from the world [i.e., Word]: or Good counsel how to close savingly with Christ : Some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him. : And especially rules for the strict and due observation of the Lord's Day. : [T…
William B. Osgood Field collection of European prints and drawings, circa 1700-1941
Field, William B. Osgood · 1700-1941 · eng, fre, ger, dut
Field, William B. Osgood. "William B. Osgood Field collection of European prints and drawings, circa 1700-1941." 1700-1941. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990114512020203941
This is farewell : readings and meditations on death and dying
· 2023 · eng
"This is farewell : readings and meditations on death and dying." Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand : Mrs Black Books, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157896004303941
Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles autograph collection, 1505-1957, (bulk) 1702-1854
Eccles, Mary Hyde Eccles, Viscountess, 1912-2003 · 1505-1957 · eng
Eccles, Mary Hyde Eccles, Viscountess, 1912-2003. "Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles autograph collection, 1505-1957, (bulk) 1702-1854." 1505-1957. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990096511970203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Anaphora of St James, the Lord's Brother” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-james-anaphora