The Passing of Mary, Latin recension B

Transitus Mariae (recensio B) · Anonymous (Latin dormition narrative) · 6th-7th century · apocryphon

Latin · domain: latin-apocrypha · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

Tischendorf's Apocalypses Apocryphae prints 'Transitus Mariae B' alongside recension A, and the Olms reprint's contents list both (https://archive.org/details/apocalypsesapoc00perkgoog; https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Transitus%20Mariae&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The long Latin recensions are the ones that circulated in the medieval West, and the whole result set for 'Transitus Mariae' in HOLLIS is Coptic, Greek, Aethiopic and Latin editions together with German and French studies, with no English translation of any individual Latin recension. The English narratives that do exist ('The Passing of Mary', Ante-Nicene Fathers 8, p. 592; Elliott 1993's appendix 'The Assumption of the Virgin') are recorded without any statement of which Latin recension they render (https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff; https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Apocryphal%20New%20Testament%20Elliott&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Shoemaker's translated dossier of dormition texts is Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopic only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ancient%20Traditions%20Virgin%20Mary%20Dormition%20Assumption%20Shoemaker&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 his 2018 Peeters volume reprints essays, not new Latin translations (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Dormition%20and%20Assumption%20Apocrypha%20Shoemaker&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Status is therefore partial: the family is represented in English, this recension is not.

Recension B is the fuller Latin form, and the one whose readings the medieval liturgical and legendary tradition follows most closely. A reader who wants to know what a twelfth-century Western congregation actually heard about Mary's death cannot get it from any current English collection, which prints the Greek or a single unlabelled Latin narrative.

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

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: The Passing of Mary Latin recension B — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff
• https://archive.org/details/apocalypsesapoc00perkgoog
• HOLLIS search — Ancient Traditions Virgin Mary Dormition Assumption Shoemaker
• HOLLIS search — Apocryphal New Testament Elliott
• HOLLIS search — Dormition and Assumption Apocrypha Shoemaker
• HOLLIS search — Transitus Mariae

Cite: Tergwame, “The Passing of Mary, Latin recension B” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-transitus-mariae-b