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Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

Museum of the Bible, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 296

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 is held in the repository of Museum of the Bible in their [Ethiopic Collection] in Washington, DC, USA. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Ethiopia (probably).

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 59.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories, but it does have 3 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 141 folios and 293 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 18-19 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is MoB-Wash DC (MoB) 296.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is MoBEth296. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include Museum of the Bible Ethiopic 296.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., USA has a collection of Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts. It is not publicly known how many manuscripts are contained in the collection and they have yet to be cataloged. The Ethiopic Miracles of Mary manuscripts are all digitized and now online.

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MoB-Wash DC (MoB) 296

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 Maryf. 10r-11v, col. 1 ---13
2The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Maryf. 11v-12r, col. 1 ---187
3Bishop Mercurius contracted leprosy and the patriarch banned him from serving communion due to his ailmentf. 12r-13r, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 5520--103
4The faded icon of the Virgin Mary that the mother-in-law wanted to discard.f. 13r-13v, col. 1 ---131
5A poor woman with a broken leg is healed by the icon of the Virgin Mary in the church of Harat ar-Rum in Cairof. 13v-14v, col. 1 ---112
6The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to himf. 14v-15v, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 5520--19
7Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to churchf. 15v-16v, col. 2 ---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 Maryf. 16v-18r, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 6938--33
9Thieves try to steal from a church of the Virgin Mary in Syria but are unable to bring what they have stolen out of the church.f. 18r-19v, col. 1 ---425
10A child whom his mother had vowed to the Virgin Mary is rescued from drowning.f. 19v-21r, col. 1 ---426
11Dabra Metmaq's people are shown a negative vision of the religious leader Muhammad (Mohamed)f. 21r-22r, col. 1 ---292
12A column falls and breaks the leg of the son of an official when Muslims destroy a church of the Virgin Mary in Homs, Syriaf. 22r-24r, col. 2 ---312
13A thief is hung upside down with the objects he stole in the Virgin Mary's church in Sebkahad, Egyptf. 24r-26v, col. 1 ---429
14Ephrem the Syrian Potter who composed the praise hymn called Weddase Maryam over seven daysf. 26v-29v, col. 2 ---14
15A sinful deacon assassinated by his enemies receives a Christian burial and is found with a flower growing out of his mouthf. 29v-31r, col. 2 ---138
16The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Maryf. 31r-33r, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 3872--136
17The repentant knight who could only learn to pray the prayer of the Hail Maryf. 33r-34v, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 3872--139
18The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milkf. 35r-36r, col. 1 EMML (HMML) 2059--135
19The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Maryf. 36r-37v, col. 2 EMML (HMML) 1573--136
20Sybil the prophetess saw a vision of the Virgin Mary holding her child within a circle around the sun and the Emperor of Rome erected an altar in his palacef. 37v-39r, col. 1 EMML (HMML) 1573--137
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