Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project, HMML Project ID EMIP, Manuscript No. 36
This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1850 and 1949. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter.
This manuscript's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Private Collection in Denver, Colorado, USA.
To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.
This manuscript has fewer Marian miracle stories than most, only 5. Also, 4 have stanzas or hymns at their end, marked with a ♫ in the table below, under Other Aspects.
This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories, but it does have 2 paintings of Mary and events in her life. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.
This manuscript has a total of 38 folios and 124 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 20 lines per column.
The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Getatchew Haile, Melaku Terefe, R.M. Rundel, D. Alemu, S. Delamarter.
The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP (EMIP) 36.
The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP00036. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMIP 0036; Eliza Codex 11.
Regarding this manuscript's repository:
The Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project is a digitization project directed by Steve Delamarter in Portland, Oregon, USA. The project has digitized over 3,700 codices and 1,200 scrolls. The collection has over sixty Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. Several catalogs have been published in the Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series from Pickwick Publications and additional metadata is available here.
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EMIP (EMIP) 36
Order in MS | Story Title | Location in MS | Paintings | Story Recension | Incipit | Other Aspects | Story ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary | f. 9r-11r, col. 1 | 0 | - | - | ♫ | 13 |
| 2 | The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary | f. 11v-12r, col. 1 | 0 | - | - | ♫ | 187 |
| 3 | An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again | f. 12r-13r, col. 2 | 0 | - | - | ♫ | 161 |
| 4 | John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk | f. 13v-14v, col. 1 | 0 | - | - | ♫ | 43 |
| 5 | A priest becomes insane after his entire family dies of the plague. | f. 16r-16r, col. 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 314 |
