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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 814

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1944 and 1945. This date is precise, based on the scribe noting the date in the manuscript. The royal ruler's name mentioned in the manuscript is Haile Selassie.

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 Apostles (Hawariat), Church of in Takla Haymanot quarter, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 73.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 156 folios and 226 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 23 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 814.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML814. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 0814.

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) 814

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. 7v-9r, col. 1 0---13
2Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: OldA: Part 01: Conception: The Virgin Mary is conceived and born (whole or opening)f. 9r-11v, col. 1 0---316-A
3Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: AOld?: Dormition: Plot: The Jews plot to burn the body of The Virgin Mary.f. 11v-13r, col. 1 0---87
4Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: AOld?: Dormition: Bier: When Tafoneya lays hands on the bier of The Virgin Mary, an angel cuts his arms off.f. 13r-14r, col. 1 0---119
5Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: BOld?: Dormition: Part 01: Saint John the Evangelist sees Christ kissing The Virgin Mary's burial cloth.f. 14r-15r, col. 2 0---261
6Homily against the report that the Apostles abandoned the body of The Virgin Mary during the dormition when they were attacked by the Jews during her funeral procession. [EMIP Part 1 of 608]f. 15r-18v, col. 2 0---282
7Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: COld?: Dormition: The Apostles visit the Virgin Mary in heaven (Synaxarion entry for 16 Nahase)f. 19r-20v, col. 1 0---281
8Dabra Sedeneya's Icon's Origin: Attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem, the story of how a good woman who hosted lodgers acquired the famous iconf. 20v-24r, col. 2 0---45
9Book of Nagara Maryam??: OldF: Part 06: Journey: The Holy Family uses stones instead of a boat to cross the Nile.f. 24r-25r, col. 1 0-
ተብህለ፡ በእንተ፡ ዘከመ፡ ከልአ፡ በዓለ፡ ሐመር፡ ዓዲወ፡ ውስተ...
-326
10Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 07: Nativity: The Virgin Mary gives birth to Jesus Christ, who is adored by shepherds and the Magi (299, 347, 446 similar)f. 25v-26v, col. 1 0---299
11Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: OldD: Part 01: Nativity: How the Virgin Mary gave birth (see no. 299) (347, 445 similar)f. 26v-28r, col. 2 0---445
12Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: DOld?: Dormition: Pact: The Virgin Mary receives the Pact of Mercy (kidan mehret) (Synaxarion entry for the 16th of Yakkatit). (470, 553, 632 similar)f. 28r-34r, col. 2 0---470
13Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 03: Annunciation: God sends Saint Gabriel to the Virgin Mary for the Annunciation (like IDs 295, 297, 435, 437, 536, 1296)f. 34r-35r, col. 1 0---295
14Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: OldG: Annunciation: Angel appeared, she was terrified (looks like reworking of Luke's gospel) (like IDs 295, 297, 435, 437, 536, 1296)f. 35r-35v, col. 1 0---536
15Dabra Metmaq's camel driver steals from the monastery and is punished by the Virgin Maryf. 35v-38r, col. 2 0---36
16King Zara Yaqob (Zarʾa Yaʿeqob), the 15th c. Ethiopian monarch, hears of Dabra Metmaq's destruction in 1452 and orders the construction of a new monastery in Ethiopia to take its place.f. 38r-41v, col. 2 0---290
17Dabra Metmaq and the Muslims who spent the night in its ruinsf. 41v-44v, col. 1 0---458
18Dabra Metmaq's Annual Apparition: The annual apparition of the Virgin Mary at the Egyptian monastery of Dabra Metmaq with or without Christ's promisesf. 44v-51r, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 6938--35
19Dabra Metmaq's people are shown a negative vision of the religious leader Muhammad (Mohamed)f. 51r-52v, col. 2 0---292
20The child Jesus causes a miraculous spring while the Holy Family is in Egyptf. 52v-53v, col. 2 0---40
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