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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 22

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1872 and 1889. This date is estimated, based on a print or electronic catalog entry about the manuscript. The royal ruler's name mentioned in the manuscript is Yohannes IV.

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 St. Mark's Church in Enṭoṭṭo, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a very high number of Marian miracle stories: 375. Of these stories, 3 are unique, marked with a ☆ in the table below, under Other Aspects.

This manuscript has some paintings of Marian miracle stories: 11. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.

These paintings are digitized and available online but only in black and white.

This manuscript has a total of 178 folios and 361 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 40 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 22.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML22. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 0022; EMIP 1288; Marqos Addis 3.

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) 22

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Book 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 Egypt	1r	-	-	-	1-A
2	Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 2: The Virgin Mary relates how Satan urged King Herod to pursue the Holy Family	4v	-	-	-	2
3	Book of Vision of Theophilus of Alexandria: Part 3: The Holy Family returns to Egypt	5v	-	-	-	3
4	Deacon Michael, who was a grocer, and his stolen ring that the Virgin Mary helped to retrieve from a fish	6v	-	-	-	4
5	The innocent Frenchman who was framed for theft by a spurned innkeeper's daughter and was hanged but did not die	8r	-	-	-	5
6	The Arabs who tried to plunder an Egyptian monastery during a famine in the time of the Patriarch Matthew and kidnap a monk when thwarted	10r	-	-	-	6
7	Dabra Qalemon's monk who humbly pretends not to fast and is saved from his brothers by the Virgin Mary.	11r	EMML (HMML) 6938	-	-	7
8	Dabra Qalemon's monks who are robbed by Berbers and aided by Arabs	12v	-	-	-	8
9	Dabra Qalemon's tailor, Jacob the Short, has his scissors stolen and the thief falls ill until he returns them	13v	-	-	-	9
10	Dabra ʾƎntsǝnā's Abbot Raphael who refused to hear the sacrament of confession during the time of Patriarch Abba Matthew of Alexandria	14r	-	-	-	10
11	Dabra 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)	15r	-	-	-	11
12	Patriarch Gabriel Ibn Tarik of Alexandria who composed the Masehafa Hawi (The Book of the Collector), a collection of Christian doctrine and theology	15v	-	-	-	12
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	16v	-	-	-	16
14	Nekwal, the deacon from Marg and Kem near Cairo in Egypt, who spent his Muslim master’s money on the poor	17r	-	-	-	17
15	The priest from Nardin, Egypt, who lived piously with a nun but was accused of sexual immorality	17v	-	-	-	18
16	The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to him	18v	-	-	-	19
17	Dabra Qalemon's icon of the Virgin Mary heals an Arab woman who had suffered from an issue of blood for many years	18v	-	-	-	20
18	John who found a stolen book, of the Acts of Saint Juliana and Saint Barbara, on the church altar due to a vision of Mary, Juliana, and Barbara	19r	-	-	-	21
19	The priest who accidentally knocked down the lamp hanging before the icon of the Virgin Mary and yet it did not spill or go out	20r	-	-	-	22
20	Two monks from the monastery of Saint Victor and the old man who stole from them and was punished	20v	-	-	-	23

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