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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 2058

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's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Ḥayq Esṭifanos Monastery in Ambāssal, Wallo Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a very high number of Marian miracle stories: 317. Also, 1 has a stanza or hymn at the end, marked with a ♫ in the table below, under Other Aspects.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 182 folios and 230 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 34–35 lines per column. The stories in this manuscript appear in 2 sequences, and are numbered accordingly below as 1.2, 2.1, etc. The Marian miracle stories begin on folio 6r of the whole manuscript.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy R. Brown and Getatchew Haile and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 2058.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML2058. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 2058.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) was a microfilming project carried out in Ethiopia in the 1970s-1990s. The project photographed 9,238 manuscripts prior to its conclusion in 1994. The collection has over five hundred Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. This project revolutionized Ethiopian Studies through the thousands of manuscripts made available for research and the ten volumes of catalogs prepared by William F. Macomber and Getatchew Haile. There is no institution that holds a complete set of the EMML microfilms, although the majority of the microfilms are available at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML has the largest collection of electronic and microfilmed Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in the world. There is an ongoing digitization effort at HMML to make the entirety of the EMML collection available online in their Reading Room. View more information about collections at HMML, including EMML.

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.

EMML (HMML) 2058

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1.1Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 01: Gestation: While still in the womb of her mother Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary heals the daughter of Arsabanf. 6r-6r, col. 1 0---293
1.2Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 02: Conception: The descent of the holy seed from Adam to the Virgin Mary.f. 6r-6r, col. 2 0---294
1.3Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 03: Annunciation: God sends Saint Gabriel to the Virgin Mary for the Annunciation (like IDs 295, 297, 435, 437, 536, 1296)f. 6r-6v, col. 3 0---295
1.4Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 04: Gestation: While still in the womb of her mother Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary works miracles and the Jews plot to kill her because ot itf. 6v-7r, col. 2 0---296
1.5Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 05: Annunciation: On the conception of Christ (like IDs 295, 297, 435, 437, 536, 1296)f. 7r-7r, col. 1 0---297
1.6Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 06: Pregnancy: The Virgin Mary leaves the Temple and enters the home of Saint Joseph.f. 7r-7v, col. 2 0---298
1.7Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 07: Nativity: The Virgin Mary gives birth to Jesus Christ, who is adored by shepherds and the Magi (299, 347, 446 similar)f. 7v-8r, col. 3 0---299
1.8Book of Ledata la-Maryam??: Old: Part 08: Nativity: The Virgin Mary and Joseph have the circumcision of the infant Christ performedf. 8r-8v, col. 2 0---300
1.9Book of Nagara Maryam: Old: Part 09: Journey: Herod orders the slaughter of the Innocents; a hunter with his dogs finds the Holy Family in flight from the kingf. 8v-8v, col. 1 0---301
1.10Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 01: Journey: The hunter reports to King Demateyanos, who comes to visit the Holy Familyf. 8v-9v, col. 3 0---302
1.11Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 02: Journey: Saint Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary to return from the mountains of Lebanon to Bethlehemf. 9v-9v, col. 1 0---303
1.12Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 03: Journey: An angel tells Saint Joseph to take the Virgin Mary and her child to Egyptf. 9v-10r, col. 3 0---304
1.13Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 04: Journey: All Israel is upset by the coming of the Magi; Saint Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary to flee to the mountains of Lebanonf. 10r-10v, col. 2 0---305
1.15Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 05: Journey: The Magi find the Holy Family and depart; the Virgin Mary flees to Tiberias and from there to the mountains of Lebanon Nagara Maryam: Part :f. 10v-11r, col. 1 0---306
1.16Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 06: Journey:The Holy Family stays in Dirdef. 11r-11v, col. 1 0---307
1.17Book of Nagara Maryam: OldE: Part 07: Journey:The Virgin Mary's prayer while in the wilderness of Edomeyasf. 11v-11v, col. 1 0---308
1.18Oz, the Byzantine monk, is shown a vision of Hell by Saint Urael.f. 11v-12r, col. 3 0---419
1.19Jesus asks the Virgin Mary what her greatest sorrow is and she replies saying these five sorrowsf. 12r-12r, col. 2 0--♫400
1.20A child and his mother see the icon of the Virgin Mary weeping for the sins of the world.f. 12v-12v, col. 1 0---412
2.1Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 1 or 1.1: Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria has a vision of the Virgin Mary telling him about the Holy Family's flight to Egyptf. 16r-20r, col. 1 0---1-A
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