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Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project, HMML Project ID EMIP, Manuscript No. 1044

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1800 and 1899. 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 EOTC Church in Addis Alem, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 35. Also, 34 have stanzas or hymns at their end, marked with a ♫ in the table below, under Other Aspects.

This manuscript has a lot of paintings of Marian miracle stories: 38. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.

Fortunately, these paintings are digitized and available online in color.

This manuscript has a total of 90 folios and 97 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 17–20 lines per column. The stories in this manuscript appear in 3 sequences, and are numbered accordingly below as 1.2, 2.1, etc. The Marian miracle stories begin on folio 23v of the whole manuscript.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy R. Brown.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP (EMIP) 1044.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP01044. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMIP 1044; Addis Alem 2.

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.

For more information about understanding this table, see Using This Site. If you think any of the information on this page is incorrect (e.g., the location, date, folios, story IDs), please use our PEMM Feedback Form to let us know. We depend on users like you to improve the site.

EMIP (EMIP) 1044

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1.1Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Marys. 13b-16b, col. 1, line 52--♫13
1.2The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Marys. 17a-17b, col. 1, line 71--♫187
1.3An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young agains. 18a-20a, col. 1, line 71--♫161
1.4The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden inks. 20a-21a, col. 2, line 101--♫162
1.5The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed hims. 22b-23b, col. 1, line 122EMML (HMML) 3872-♫163
1.6The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to hims. 24a-27b, col. 1, line 41EMML (HMML) 5520-♫19
1.7Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to churchs. 27b-29a, col. 2, line 31--♫27
1.8The French artist knocked off his scaffolding by Satan (who was angry because of how he was being painted) is caught by the Virgin Marys. 29a-32a, col. 2, line 21EMML (HMML) 6938-♫33
1.9Dabra Nagadeyan's dying monk prays in front of her icon to go to Jerusalem and the Virgin Mary takes him from Lower Egypt to all around the holy lands. 32a-33a, col. 1, line 161EMML (HMML) 5520-♫54
1.10A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with rosess. 33a-35a, col. 2, line 11EMML (HMML) 3872-♫153
1.11The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to churchs. 35a-37a, col. 2, line 121EMML (HMML) 3872-♫154
1.12Dabra Qalemon's gifts from two Arabs who, journeying on the Nile in Egypt, fall into the water due to a storm and are saved from crocodiless. 37b-38b, col. 1, line 11--♫16
1.13The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.s. 39a-40a, col. 1, line 71--♫46
1.14John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milks. 40a-42b, col. 2, line 51--♫43
1.15The rich man from Colossae who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwezs. 43a-45a, col. 1, line 21--♫48
1.16Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milks. 45b-48b, col. 1, line 131--♫59
1.17A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughterss. 48b-50a, col. 2, line 81--♫57
1.18The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sins. 50a-52a, col. 2, line 101--♫61
1.19George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Marys. 52a-54a, col. 2, line 131--♫68
1.20Katir, the old priest from Al-Kasus, who was mistreated by a church custodian, is restored to strength by the Virgin Marys. 54a-56a, col. 2, line 11--♫82
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