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Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 298

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1730 and 1755. This date is estimated, based on a print or electronic catalog entry about the manuscript.

This manuscript is held in the repository of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in their [Ethiopic Collection] in Rome, Italy. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Ethiopia (probably).

This manuscript has not yet been digitized as of September 2022.

This manuscript has a very high number of Marian miracle stories: 293. Also, we are uncertain about the identification of 1 stories, marked with a [?] in the table below, under Other Aspects.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories, but it does have 2 paintings 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 244 folios. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 29 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by A. Van Lantschoot and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is VL-Vatican (BAV) 298.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is BAVet298. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include Vatican Et. 298.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana collection of over 970 Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts is one of the largest and most studied collections outside of Ethiopia and Eritrea. This collection is made up of five distinct subcollections: the Vatican general collection (Vat. et.), the Borgiani collection (Borg. et.), the Comboniani collection, the Cerulli collection (Cerulli et.), and the Raineri collection. Multiple catalogs of this large collection have been prepared, by Sylvain Grébaut and Eugène Tisserand (1935-36), Arnold van Lantschoot (1962), Osvaldo Raineri (1986, 1994, 1998, and 2000), and Enrico Cerulli (2000).

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.

VL-Vatican (BAV) 298

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Bishop Ildefonsus (Daqseyos) of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	9r	-	-	-	13
2	A monk without food or clothes received a garment from the Virgin Mary	10r	-	-	-	404
3	The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary	10r	-	-	-	187
4	An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again	10v	-	-	-	161
5	The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden ink	11r	-	-	-	162
6	The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed him	11v	-	-	-	163
7	The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to him	12r	-	-	-	19
8	Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to church	12v	-	-	-	27
9	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	13r	-	-	-	33
10	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	13v	-	-	-	54
11	A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with roses	13v	-	-	-	153
12	The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church	14v	-	-	-	154
13	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	15r	-	-	-	16
14	The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.	15v	-	-	-	46
15	John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	15v	-	-	-	43
16	The rich man from Colossae who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwez	16v	-	-	-	48
17	Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	17r	-	-	-	59
18	A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughters	17v	-	-	-	57
19	The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sin	18r	-	-	-	61
20	George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Mary	18v	-	-	-	68

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