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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