Gunda Gunde Monastery, Gunda Gunde Manuscripts Collection, Manuscript No. 127

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 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 fewer Marian miracle stories than most, only 2.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 157 folios and 323 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 16–19 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is Gunda Gunde (Toronto) 127.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is GG00127. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include GG-127; Gunda Gunde 127; HMML_127; A68 GE; C3-IV-24.

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. 

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