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Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ethiopic Collection, Manuscript No. 5

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 Yale University Library in their Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ethiopic Collection in New Haven, CT, USA. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was Ethiopia (probably).

This manuscript is digitized but not publicly available online as of September 2022.

This manuscript has fewer Marian miracle stories than most, only 13. Also, 11 have stanzas or hymns at their 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 94 folios and 102 scans. It has 1 columns per page and approximately 14 lines per column.

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

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is B-E (Yale) 5.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMIP3133. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include Yale Ethiopic 05.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA is home to at least 35 Ethiopian/Eritrean codices and scrolls. A catalog of the collection has been prepared by Steve Delamarter and Ewosteos Gebrekrestos in the 2020s. View highlights of the collection.

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B-E (Yale) 5

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. 9r-12r, col. 1	-	-	-	13
2	The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary	f. 12r-13r, col. 1	-	-	♫	187
3	The noble man from Qemer who was a cannibal and ate 78 people, gave a drop of water to a beggar, and went to heaven	f. 13v-19r, col. 1	-	-	♫	125
4	Thieves at the Spring: Part 2: The Virgin Mary saves the soul of a thief who was slain by the miraculous spring	f. 19v-21r, col. 1	-	-	-	101
5	The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.	f. 21r-22v, col. 2	-	-	♫	46
6	John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	f. 23r-25v, col. 1	-	-	♫	43
7	The rich man from Colosse who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwez	f. 25v-28r, col. 2	-	-	♫	48
8	The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sin	f. 28r-29v, col. 2	-	-	♫	61
9	George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Mary	f. 29v-31r, col. 2	-	-	♫	68
10	Bishop Mercurius contracted leprosy and the patriarch banned him from serving communion due to his ailment	f. 31r-32v, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 5520	-	♫	103
11	The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.	f. 32v-34r, col. 2	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	140
12	A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Mary	f. 34v-36v, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	♫	142
13	Jesus asks the Virgin Mary what her greatest sorrow is and she replies saying these five sorrows	f. 36v-37v, col. 2	-	-	♫	400

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