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

Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 6914

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1700 and 1799. 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 Church of Bēta Madḫānē 'Ālam in Lasta, Wallo Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a high number of Marian miracle stories: 164.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories, but it does have 1 painting 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 112 folios and 123 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 29 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 6914.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML6914. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 6914.

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) 6914

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1Bishop Ildefonsus (Daqseyos) of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Maryf. 8r-8v, col. 1 0---13
2Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 1 or 1.1: Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria has a vision of the Virgin Mary telling him about the Holy Family's flight to Egyptf. 8v-13v, col. 3 0---1-A
3Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 2: The Virgin Mary relates how Satan urged King Herod to pursue the Holy Familyf. 13v-15r, col. 3 0---2
4Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 3: The Holy Family returns to Egyptf. 15r-15v, col. 1 0---3
5Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: EOld?: Dormition: The Virgin Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and the disciples fly to arrive at the consecration of the first church, the patriarchs are commemorated, rise from the dead, and are baptizedf. 15v-16r, col. 3 0---488
6Deacon Michael, who was a grocer, and his stolen ring that the Virgin Mary helped to retrieve from a fishf. 16r-18r, col. 3 0---4
7The innocent Frenchman who was framed for theft by a spurned innkeeper's daughter and was hanged but did not dief. 18r-21r, col. 3 0---5
8The Arabs who tried to plunder an Egyptian monastery during a famine in the time of the Patriarch Matthew and kidnap a monk when thwartedf. 21r-22r, col. 2 0---6
9Dabra Qalemon's monk who humbly pretends not to fast and is saved from his brothers by the Virgin Mary.f. 22r-23v, col. 3 0EMML (HMML) 6938--7
10Dabra Qalemon's monks who are robbed by Berbers and aided by Arabsf. 23v-25r, col. 3 0---8
11Dabra Qalemon's tailor, Jacob the Short, has his scissors stolen and the thief falls ill until he returns themf. 25r-25v, col. 1 0---9
12Dabra ʾƎntsǝnā's Abbot Raphael who refused to hear the sacrament of confession during the time of Patriarch Abba Matthew of Alexandriaf. 25v-26v, col. 3 0---10
13Dabra Qalemon's icon of the Virgin Mary and the Arab who has contempt for it and is punished during the time of Patriarch Gabriel IV of Alexandria (1370-1378)f. 26v-27r, col. 2 0---11
14Ephrem the Syrian Potter who composed the praise hymn called Weddase Maryam over seven daysf. 27r-27v, col. 2 0---14
15Amnut, the custodian of a church in Egypt, who quarreled with the resentful new bishop after Amnut refused to become the bishopf. 27v-30Ar, col. 3 0---15
16Dabra 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 crocodilesf. 30Ar-30Av, col. 2 0EMML (HMML) 6938--16
17Nekwal, the deacon from Marg and Kem near Cairo in Egypt, who spent his Muslim master’s money on the poorf. 30Av-30Br, col. 1 0---17
18The priest from Nardin, Egypt, who lived piously with a nun but was accused of sexual immoralityf. 30Br-31r, col. 1 0---18
19The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to himf. 31r-31v, col. 2 0---19
20Dabra Qalemon's icon of the Virgin Mary heals an Arab woman who had suffered from an issue of blood for many yearsf. 31v-32r, col. 2 0---20
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