ʾO-ʾƎgzǝʾǝtǝya Māryām ('O my Lady Mary'): fifty-five hymn stanzas summarising miracles of Mary
ኦእግዝእትየ፡ ማርያም፡
· Walda Krǝstos (attributed in the Beta Masaheft record, PRS14890Waldakirstos)
· 16th c. (earliest known manuscript commissioned for King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl, r. 1563–1597)
· liturgy
· LIT7498OEgzeteyaMaryam
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 (checked 2026-11-13) contains the Geʿez text of the stanzas, an attribution and cross-references to the miracles each stanza summarises, and no translation of any kind. No English rendering appears in PEMM's bibliography of Marian editions and translations (https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us/research/bibliography), in HOLLIS ('Ethiopian malke hymn' returns only Habtamu Kidana's 2024 study of the malkǝʾ genre: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ethiopian%20malke%20hymn&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 or in LOC.
Fifty-five stanzas; 27 correspond to the 33 stanzas of the ʾakko-nu bǝʾsi cycle, six of which have no equivalent here. Each stanza closes with the refrain 'O my Lady Mary'. A late (16th c.) poetic reworking of the miracle collection, so it stands or falls with the collection's untranslated stanzas.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Cite: Tergwame, “ʾO-ʾƎgzǝʾǝtǝya Māryām ('O my Lady Mary'): fifty-five hymn stanzas summarising miracles of Mary”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-walda-krestos-o-egzietya-maryam