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Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 4618

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1508 and 1540. This date is estimated, based on the reigning Ethiopian royal ruler's name appearing in the manuscript. The royal ruler's name mentioned in the manuscript is Lebna Dengel.

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 Angadda Hawariat church in Angolala, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a high number of Marian miracle stories: 120. Of these stories, 9 are unique, 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 162 folios and 167 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 19 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Getatchew Haile and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 4618.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML4618. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 4618.

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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EMML (HMML) 4618

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	2r	-	-	-	13
2	The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milk	4r	-	-	-	135
3	The thief whom the king's soldiers could not kill by hanging because he prayed to the Virgin Mary	5r	-	-	-	136
4	Sybil 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 palace	6r	-	-	-	137
5	A sinful deacon assassinated by his enemies receives a Christian burial and is found with a flower growing out of his mouth	7v	-	-	-	138
6	The repentant knight who could only learn to pray the prayer of the Hail Mary	9v	-	-	-	139
7	The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.	8r	-	-	-	140
8	Pilgrim to Santiago: Part 1: The bishop for whom the Virgin Mary tailored a new sackcloth sends a penitent pilgrim to Santiago (whole or opening)	10r	-	-	-	141-A
10	The pilgrim [to Santiago] whom Satan persuaded to mutilate himself after falling into a sexual sin	12r	-	-	-	144
11	The priest who could only memorize one mass, the Anaphora of the Virgin Mary, and was prevented from performing mass by the bishop	13v	-	-	-	145
12	The nun who used to pray for the dead lost her virginity but died before completing her penance and the Virgin Mary delivered her from hell	14r	-	-	-	205
13	The Jewish boy who was thrown into the furnace by his father after he received Holy Communion with his Christian companions	15r	-	-	-	147
14	The pregnant woman who was caught by a wave while going to the church of Saint Michael (Mont Saint Michel) and gives birth underwater protected by the Virgin Mary's cloak	16r	-	-	-	148
15	A man who drowned when a pilgrim ship sank and was delivered unharmed to their destination	17v	-	-	-	149
16	A divorced wife who prayed for revenge against her husband's new wife but was refused because the new wife was devoted to the Virgin Mary	18v	-	-	-	150
17	A woman from Rome whose daughter returns to life for a day on the anniversary of her death	20v	-	-	-	151
19	A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with roses	22r	-	-	-	153
20	The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church	23v	-	-	-	154
21	Emperor Constantine's sister, who prayed to know how the Virgin Mary bore the Word of God, but then failed to recognize her Son when he appeared to her in church.	24r	-	-	-	155
22	A young novice, after completing a year in the monastery, was encouraged by the Virgin Mary to persevere in his vocation	25r	-	-	-	156

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