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Gunda Gunde Monastery, Gunda Gunde Manuscripts Collection, Manuscript No. 43

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1700 and 1799. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter.

This manuscript is held in the repository of Gunda Gunde Monastery in their Gunda Gunde Manuscripts Collection in Adigrat, Ethiopia. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was North: Tigray.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 38. Also, 38 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: 54. 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 113 folios and 235 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 20 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is Gunda Gunde (Toronto) 43.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is GG00043. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include GG-043; Gunda Gunde 43; HMML_043; C3-IV-57.

This manuscript's last known location was the Gunda Gunde Monastery, but it is painted in a high Second Gondarine style, so we assume that it was originally made at the court in Gondar.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The manuscript collection at monastery at Gunda Gunde in Tigray province of Ethiopia was undertaken by Michael Gervers, Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Jan Retsö, Denis Nosnitsin, and Gordon Belray through the sponsorship of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML has the largest collection of electronic and microfilmed Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in the world. For more information about the collection and to see the images, go here.

The images are also hosted at the University of Toronto Scarborough.This digitization project photographed and cataloged 219 codices at the monastery in 2006. For more information about the collection and to see the images, go 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.

Gunda Gunde (Toronto) 43

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Paintings	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: OldA: Part 01: Conception: The Virgin Mary is conceived and born (whole or opening)	f. 12r-13v, col. 1	2	-	-	♫	316-A
2	Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: OldA: Part 01: Temple: The Virgin Mary stays in the Temple (315, 316-D, 447 similar)	f. 14v-15v, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	315
3	Book of Felsata la-Maryam??: DOld?: Dormition: Pact: The Virgin Mary receives the Pact of Mercy (kidan mehret) (Synaxary entry for the 16th of Yakkatit). (470, 553, 632 similar)	f. 16r-18r, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	470
4	Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	f. 19r-20v, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	13
5	The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary	f. 21v-22r, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	187
6	An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again	f. 22v-23r, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	161
7	The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden ink	f. 24r-24v, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	162
8	The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed him	f. 25v-26r, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	163
9	The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to him	f. 27r-28r, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 5520	-	♫	19
10	Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to church	f. 28v-29r, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	27
11	The French artist knocked off his scaffolding by Satan (who was angry because of how he was being painted) is caught by the Virgin Mary	f. 30r-31r, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 6938	-	♫	33
12	Dabra 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 land	f. 32r-32v, col. 1	2	EMML (HMML) 5520	-	♫	54
13	A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with roses	f. 33r-34v, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	153
14	The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church	f. 35v-36r, col. 1	1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	154
15	Dabra 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 crocodiles	f. 36v-37v, col. 1	2	EMML (HMML) 5520	-	♫	16
16	The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.	f. 38v-39r, col. 1	2	-	-	♫	46
17	John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	f. 40v-41v, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	43
18	The rich man from Colosse who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwez	f. 43r-43v, col. 1	2	-	-	♫	48
19	Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	f. 44v-45v, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	59
20	A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughters	f. 46v-47r, col. 1	1	-	-	♫	57

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