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Coptic Museum of Cairo, Arabic Manuscript Collection, Manuscript No. 11-8

This Arabic language manuscript was created between 1687 and 1687. This date is precise, based on the scribe noting the date in the manuscript.

This manuscript is held in the repository of Coptic Museum of Cairo in their Arabic Manuscript Collection in Cairo, Egypt. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Cairo, Egypt.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 54.

These paintings are digitized and available online but only in black and white.

This manuscript has a total of 226 folios and 243 scans. It has 1 columns per page and approximately 18–19 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy Brown with Ekaterina Pukhovaia.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is CM-Ar-Cairo (CM) 11-8.

Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include CMB 11-8; Coptic Museum of Cairo 11-8.

This manuscript has many paintings not documented in PEMM, on folios 57a to 117b. One of these appears in a PEMM Research Post.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, Egypt has a vast collection of Arabic, Coptic, and Greek manuscripts. The collection was partially microfilmed by Brigham Young University. The microfilmed manuscripts have been cataloged by William F. Macomber in 1990.

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CM-Ar-Cairo (CM) 11-8

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1Dabra Sedeneya's Icon's Origin: Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem, the story of how a good woman who hosted lodgers acquired the famous icons. 44a-48a 0---45
2A husband broke his vow to live celibately with his wife and the wife cursed him by saying any resulting child would belong to Satans. 63a-65b 0---171
3The nun who used to pray for the dead lost her virginity but died before completing her penance and the Virgin Mary delivered her from hells. 65b-65a 0---205
4The nun who the Virgin Mary encouraged to recite the Hail Mary more slowly because the Virgin Mary enjoyed its. 65a-66b 0---206
5The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Marys. 66a-67b 0---136
6Sybil the prophetess saw a vision of the Virgin Mary holding her child within a circle around the sun and the Emperor of Rome erected an altar in his palaces. 67b-68b 0---137
7A sinful deacon assassinated by his enemies receives a Christian burial and is found with a flower growing out of his mouths. 68b-69b 0---138
8The repentant knight who could only learn to pray the prayer of the Hail Marys. 69b-69a 0---139
9The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.s. 69a-70b 0---140
10Pilgrim to Santiago: Part 1: The bishop for whom the Virgin Mary tailored a new sackcloth sends a penitent pilgrim to Santiago (whole or opening)s. 70a-71a 0---141-A
11A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Marys. 71a-72b 0---142
12The priest who could only memorize one mass, the Anaphora of the Virgin Mary, and was prevented from performing mass by the bishops. 72b-72a 0---145
13The knight who plotted to seduce the shoemaker's daughter, who had pledged her virginity to the Virgin Marys. 72a-75a 0---146
14The Jewish boy who was thrown into the furnace by his father after he received Holy Communion with his Christian companionss. 75a-76b 0---147
15The pregnant woman who was caught by a wave while going to the church of Saint Michael (Mont Saint Michel) and gives birth underwater protected by the Virgin Mary's cloaks. 76b-77b 0---148
16A man who drowned when a pilgrim ship sank and was delivered unharmed to their destinations. 77b-78b 0---149
17A divorced wife who prayed for revenge against her husband's new wife but was refused because the new wife was devoted to the Virgin Marys. 78b-79b 0---150
18A woman from Rome whose daughter returns to life for a day on the anniversary of her deaths. 79b-80b 0---151
19A widow who saved her only son from execution by hanging when she prayed to the Virgin Marys. 80b-81b 0---152
20A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with rosess. 81b-82b 0---153
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