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

Miracles of Mary Number of Stories in Manuscripts

By PEMM Team

October 6, 2023

How many stories do Miracles of Mary manuscripts have?

Although it is commonly said that a standard Täˀammərä Maryam manuscript has a miracle story for every day of the year, in fact only 4 manuscripts out of PEMM's set of about 1,000 manuscripts do. We hope that the PEMM project will enable scholars to stop repeating this unfounded speculation made over 100 years ago by Wallis Budge.

Many Ge'ez manuscripts have just one or two stories, added in with other texts. X out of PEMM's set of about 1,000 manuscripts have just one or two stories.

The average number of stories per manuscript is x.

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