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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 1692

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1434 and 1499. This date is estimated, based on a print or electronic catalog entry about the manuscript.

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 Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 61.

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 142 folios and 150 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 19–23 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy R. Brown and Getatchew Haile and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 1692.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML1692. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 1692; IES 432; EAP286/1/1/432.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) was a microfilming project carried out in Ethiopia in the 1970s-1990s. The project photographed 9,238 manuscripts prior to its conclusion in 1994. The collection has over five hundred Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. This project revolutionized Ethiopian Studies through the thousands of manuscripts made available for research and the ten volumes of catalogs prepared by William F. Macomber and Getatchew Haile. There is no institution that holds a complete set of the EMML microfilms, although the majority of the microfilms are available at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML has the largest collection of electronic and microfilmed Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in the world. There is an ongoing digitization effort at HMML to make the entirety of the EMML collection available online in their Reading Room. View more information about collections at HMML, including EMML.

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EMML (HMML) 1692

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Bishop Ildefonsus (Daqseyos) of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	f. 10r-12r, col. 1	-	-	-	13
2	The nominal Christian from Sidon who encountered a serpent/dragon/snake in the desert of Scete (same as 1231?)	f. 12r-14r, col. 2	-	-	-	134
3	The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milk	f. 14r-15v, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	135
4	The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Mary	f. 15v-17r, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	136
5	Sybil 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 palace	f. 17r-19r, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	137
6	A sinful deacon assassinated by his enemies receives a Christian burial and is found with a flower growing out of his mouth	f. 19r-20r, col. 2	-	-	-	138
7	The repentant knight who could only learn to pray the prayer of the Hail Mary	f. 20v-21v, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	139
8	The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.	f. 21v-22v, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	140
9	Pilgrim to Santiago: Part 1: The bishop for whom the Virgin Mary tailored a new sackcloth sends a penitent pilgrim to Santiago (whole or opening)	f. 22v-24r, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	141-A
10	A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Mary	f. 24r-25r, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	142
11	Alexander, a nobleman from Jerusalem, was swallowed up by a dragon (crocodile) and delivered after three days	f. 25r-26v, col. 2	-	-	-	143
12	The pilgrim [to Santiago] whom Satan persuaded to mutilate himself after falling into a sexual sin	f. 26v-28v, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	144
13	The priest who could only memorize one mass, the Anaphora of the Virgin Mary, and was prevented from performing mass by the bishop	f. 28v-30r, col. 1	-	-	-	145
14	The knight who plotted to seduce the shoemaker's daughter, who had pledged her virginity to the Virgin Mary	f. 30r-34r, col. 2	-	-	-	146
15	The Jewish boy who was thrown into the furnace by his father after he received Holy Communion with his Christian companions	f. 34r-35v, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	147
16	A widow who saved her only son from execution by hanging when she prayed to the Virgin Mary	f. 35v-36v, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 4618	-	-	152
17	Saint Basil and the proud men who wanted to have a splendid icon of the Virgin Mary made and ask him to make it	f. 36v-38r, col. 2	-	-	-	98
18	A virgin, living with her mother, who slept with many young men due to Satan and was saved by the Virgin Mary when her tears outweighed her sins	f. 38v-40r, col. 1	-	-	-	113
19	The hypocritical superior of a monastery who pretended to be religious and is rescued from hell by the Virgin Mary	f. 40r-41r, col. 2	-	-	-	196
20	The Jew who stabbed the icon of the Virgin Mary when he failed to obtain someone else's property through a lawsuit	f. 41r-42r, col. 2	-	-	-	202

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