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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 76

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1875 and 1913. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter. The royal ruler's name mentioned in the manuscript is Menilek II.

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. Ragu'el 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: 301. Also, 275 have stanzas or hymns at their end, marked with a ♫ in the table below, under Other Aspects.

This manuscript has a lot of paintings of Marian miracle stories: 43. 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 296 folios and 594 scans. It has 3 columns per page and approximately 27–35 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Dawit Muluneh. Assistance and/or typing of incipits by Bret Windhauser.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 76.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML76. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 0076.

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) 76

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Marys. 25-27, col. 1, line 10--♫13
2The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Marys. 27-28, col. 3, line 11--♫187
3An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young agains. 29-29, col. 1, line 10--♫161
4The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden inks. 30-30, col. 1, line 11--♫162
5The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed hims. 31-31, col. 1, line 10--♫163
6The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to hims. 32-33, col. 1, line 31--♫19
7Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to churchs. 34-35, col. 1, line 11--♫27
8The French artist knocked off his scaffolding by Satan (who was angry because of how he was being painted) is caught by the Virgin Marys. 35-36, col. 2, line 11--♫33
9Dabra Nagadeyan's dying monk prays in front of her icon to go to Jerusalem and the Virgin Mary takes him from Lower Egypt to all around the holy lands. 36-37, col. 3, line 81--♫54
10A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with rosess. 38-39, col. 1, line 11--♫153
11The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to churchs. 40-41, col. 2, line 11--♫154
12Dabra 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 crocodiless. 42, col. 1, line 11--♫16
13The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.s. 43-43, col. 1, line 131--♫46
14John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milks. 45-46, col. 1, line 10--♫43
15The rich man from Colossae who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwezs. 46-47, col. 1, line 211--♫48
16Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milks. 48-49, col. 1, line 11--♫59
17A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughterss. 50-51, col. 1, line 11--♫57
18The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sins. 51-52, col. 3, line 11--♫61
19George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Marys. 53-53, col. 1, line 11--♫68
20Katir, the old priest from Al-Kasus, who was mistreated by a church custodian, is restored to strength by the Virgin Marys. 54-55, col. 1, line 11--♫82
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