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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 2297

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's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Mitaq Gabri'el Church in Tagulat and Bulga, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 54. 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 82 folios and 109 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 15 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Mehari Worku.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 2297.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML2297. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 2297.

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.

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EMML (HMML) 2297

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	f. 10v-12v, col. 2	-	-	-	13
2	Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to church	f. 12v-13v, col. 1	-	-	-	27
3	The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milk	f. 13v-15r, col. 2	-	-	-	135
4	The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Mary	f. 15r-16v, col. 1	-	-	-	136
5	A sinful deacon assassinated by his enemies receives a Christian burial and is found with a flower growing out of his mouth	f. 16v-18v, col. 2	-	-	-	138
6	The repentant knight who could only learn to pray the prayer of the Hail Mary	f. 18v-20r, col. 1	-	-	-	139
7	The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.	f. 20r-21r, col. 1	-	-	-	140
8	Pilgrim to Santiago: Part 1: The bishop for whom the Virgin Mary tailored a new sackcloth sends a penitent pilgrim to Santiago (whole or opening)	f. 21r-23r, col. 2	-	-	-	141-A
9	The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church	f. 23r-24r, col. 2	-	-	-	154
10	An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again	f. 24r-25r, col. 1	-	-	-	161
11	The nun who used to pray for the dead lost her virginity but died before completing her penance and the Virgin Mary delivered her from hell	f. 25r-26v, col. 2	-	-	-	205
12	The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary	f. 26v-27v, col. 2	-	-	-	187
13	The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.	f. 27v-28v, col. 2	-	-	-	46
14	Scete's monks who were visited by apparitions of the Desert Fathers, including the saints Macarius, John, Moses, and John Kama, while praying to the Virgin Mary	f. 28v-29v, col. 2	-	-	-	55
15	A man who would not eat before receiving Holy Communion.	f. 29v-30r, col. 1	-	-	-	383
16	The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden ink	f. 30r-31r, col. 2	-	-	-	162
17	The church built on the tomb of the Virgin Mary that will turn into a ship during the second coming	f. 31r-31v, col. 1	-	-	-	42
18	A priest who was warned not to rush when incensing the icon of the Virgin Mary; the patrariach who received miraculous baptismal water; and Hilaria the daughter of Emperor Zeno who became a nun in Scete	f. 31v-32v, col. 2	-	-	-	90
19	A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Mary	f. 32v-34r, col. 1	-	-	-	142
20	The pilgrim [to Santiago] whom Satan persuaded to mutilate himself after falling into a sexual sin	f. 34r-36r, col. 1	-	-	-	144

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