Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 642
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 Patriarchate Library in Makkāklaňňā, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.
This manuscript has a very high number of Marian miracle stories: 374. Of these stories, 1 is unique, marked with a ☆ in the table below, under Other Aspects. Also, 59 have stanzas or hymns at their end, marked with a ♫ in the table below, under Other Aspects. Also, we are uncertain about the identification of 2 number of stories, marked with a [?] in the table below, under Other Aspects.
This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories, but it does have 2 paintings of Mary and events in her life. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.
This manuscript has a total of 205 folios and 415 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 35 lines per column.
The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Mehari Worku. Assistance and/or typing of incipits by Mihret Melaku.
The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 642.
The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML642. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 0642.
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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