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

Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project, HMML Project ID EMIP, Manuscript No. 761

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's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Chelekot Sellasie Church in Tigray Province, Ethiopia.

This manuscript is digitized but not publicly available online as of September 2022.

This manuscript has a high number of Marian miracle stories: 188.

This manuscript has a few paintings of Marian miracle stories: 3. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.

These paintings have been digitized in color but are not available online. We hope the repository will put this manuscript online soon.

This manuscript has a total of 252 folios and 261 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 22–23 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP (EMIP) 761.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP00761. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMIP 0761; Chelekot Silassie 20; EMDL 490 .

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project is a digitization project directed by Steve Delamarter in Portland, Oregon, USA. The project has digitized over 3,700 codices and 1,200 scrolls. The collection has over sixty Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. Several catalogs have been published in the Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series from Pickwick Publications and additional metadata is available 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.

EMIP (EMIP) 761

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
63The poor, pious firewood collector to whom the town's gatekeeper betrothed his daughterf. 5r-5v, col. 1 0---184
64The peasant who became rich by seizing his neighbors' land and crops and is rescued from going to hell by the Virgin Maryf. 5v-6r, col. 2 0---195
65A bishop who was commanded by the Virgin Mary in a dream to bury an executed robber in consecrated groundf. 6r-7v, col. 3 0---186
66The nun who the Virgin Mary encouraged to recite the Hail Mary more slowly because the Virgin Mary enjoyed itf. 7v-7v, col. 1 0---206
67A pious monk who had drunk too much wine was saved from a lion and a dog by the Virgin Maryf. 8r-8v, col. 1 0---170
70A man who drowned when a pilgrim ship sank and was delivered unharmed to their destinationf. 8v-9r, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 3872--149
71A wealthy knight who squandered his wealth and denied Christ at the bidding of Satan, in order to have fine clothes for a reception, but refused to deny the Virgin Maryf. 9r-10r, col. 3 0---203
72Deacon Michael, who was a grocer, and his stolen ring that the Virgin Mary helped to retrieve from a fishf. 10r-13r, col. 3 0---4
73Dabra Qalemon's monk who humbly pretends not to fast and is saved from his brothers by the Virgin Mary.f. 13r-14v, col. 2 0EMML (HMML) 2378--7
74The rich knight who tried to gain a woman's love through gifts and was advised by an abbot to pray to the Virgin Mary insteadf. 15r-16v, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 3872--180
75A monk who was carried by his fellow monks to church when he became too sick to walkf. 16v-17r, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 3872--179
76A herder saves his sheep and cattle during a storm by praying to the Virgin Maryf. 17r-18r, col. 1 0---183
77Thieves at the Spring: Part 1: The daughter of the chief of the thieves is cured of her leprosy at the miraculous spring.f. 18r-19r, col. 1 0---100
78Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 2: The Virgin Mary relates how Satan urged King Herod to pursue the Holy Familyf. 19r-21r, col. 1 0---2
79Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 3: The Holy Family returns to Egyptf. 21r-23v, col. 3 0---3
80The Arabs who tried to plunder an Egyptian monastery during a famine in the time of the Patriarch Matthew and kidnap a monk when thwartedf. 23v-26r, col. 3 0---6
81Dabra Qalemon's monks who are robbed by Berbers and aided by Arabsf. 26r-28v, col. 3 0---8
82Dabra Qalemon's tailor, Jacob the Short, has his scissors stolen and the thief falls ill until he returns themf. 29r-31r, col. 1 0---9
83Dabra ʾƎntsǝnā's Abbot Raphael who refused to hear the sacrament of confession during the time of Patriarch Abba Matthew of Alexandriaf. 31r-32v, col. 1 0---10
84Dabra Qalemon's icon of the Virgin Mary and the Arab who has contempt for it and is punished during the time of Patriarch Gabriel IV of Alexandria (1370-1378)f. 32v-33v, col. 2 0---11
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