British Library, "Orient" Collection, Manuscript No. 604

PEMM has not yet cataloged this manuscript.

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1716 and 1721. This date is estimated, based on the reigning Ethiopian royal ruler's name appearing in the manuscript. The royal ruler's name mentioned in the manuscript is Dawit III.

This manuscript is held in the repository of British Library in their "Orient" Collection in London, UK. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Ethiopia (probably).

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This manuscript has an unidentified number of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 137 folios. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 28 lines per column.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is BOr (BL) 604.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is BLorient604. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include British Library Orient 604; British Library Or 604.

Note: This manuscript is not a Täˀammərä Maryam manuscript. It is a collection of homilies. We include it on our website, however, because Wallis Budge translated over 20 homilies from it, which homilies do commonly appear in Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. 

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The British Library collection of over 600 Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts is one of the largest and most studied collections outside of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The acquisition of manuscripts began under the auspices of the British Museum in 1753. The collection has over 30 Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. This collection includes 349 manuscripts looted by British forces from the Ethiopian stronghold at Magdala in 1868. Multiple catalogs of this large collection have been prepared, by August Dillmann (1847), William Wright (1870), and Stefan Strelcyn (1978). View more information about this collection. Unfortunately, due to a ransomware attack in October 2023, almost none of these manuscripts are still online. 

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