Berlin Staatsbibliothek, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 74

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1750 and 1849. 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 Berlin Staatsbibliothek in their [Ethiopic Collection] in Berlin, Germany. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Ethiopia (probably).

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has only one Marian miracle story.

This manuscript has a lot of paintings of Marian miracle stories: 15. 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 91 folios and 194 scans. It has 1 columns per page and approximately 16 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by E. Hammerschmidt, V. Six, and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is H-Berlin (BS) 74.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is BerOrOct1302. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ms or. oct. 1302.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has a collection of 335 Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts. The first manuscripts in the collection were acquired from Theodor Petraeus in 1682. Multiple catalogs of this collection have been prepared, by August Dillmann (1878), Ernst Hammerschmitt (1983), and Veronika Six (1983, 1994, and 1999). View more information about this collection

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