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Institute of Ethiopian Studies, EAP Project No. 286, by Delamarter and Demeke, Manuscript No. 422

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1700 and 1799. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter.

This manuscript is held in the repository of Institute of Ethiopian Studies in their EAP Project No. 286, by Delamarter and Demeke in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was South: Addis Ababa.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has fewer Marian miracle stories than most, only 3.

Fortunately, these paintings are digitized and available online in color.

This manuscript has a total of 98 folios and 105 scans. It has 1 columns per page and approximately 4-14 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is IES-286 (EAP) 422.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML1487. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include IES 422; EMML 1487; EAP286/1/1/422.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

Endangered Archives Programme grant EAP286 was a digitization project directed by Demeke Berhane Teffera and Steve Delamarter, with Jeremy R. Brown as the director of manuscript digitization. The project digitized 5,749 items, of which are 1,800 Ge’ez manuscripts at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Cataloging for the project has been carried out by Demeke Berhane Teffera, Kesis Melaku Terefe, Steve Delamarter, and Jeremy R. Brown. For more information about the project, go here.

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IES-286 (EAP) 422

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