Collection of texts on Mary Transl. of the Eth. title on the front cover: Homily on Her [sic!] Mother; Story of Mary;

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Text 1: ff. 1ra-10va3: “Homily on our Lady Mary, the birth of the holy Virgin Mary, how she entered the Temple, and how she was committed to Joseph’s care“ Text 2: ff. 10va,4-30ra: Homily on our Lady Mary by Abba Yoḥannəs, Metropolitan of Ethiopia; Text 3: ff. 30rb,1-64r (but fol. 63v-64r not filmed): The Book of Mary’s Birth (= Protevangelium of James); Text 4: ff. 64va,1- 68vb: A story of constructing churches devoted to Mary (f. 64a, upper margin: ዘሕንጸተ፡ ቤታ፡); (= extract from the Synaxary, on the 21 of Sane) Text 5: ff. 69ra,1- 83ra-b,8: (f. 69ra, upper margin: ዘቅዳሴ፡ ቤታ፡); Homily of Basil bishop of Caesarea on the construction of the church devoted to Mary Text 6: ff. 83ra,9-103v (unfinished): Homily of Minas bishop of Aksum on Mary; f. 83ra, on the upper margin: Kidanä Məḥrät (ኪዳነ፡ ምሕረት፡)

In collections

Gunda Gunde Manuscripts

Details

Address

Monastery of Gunda Gunde

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Local Identifier

GG-029a

Title

On the front cover: ድርሳነ፡ እማ፡ / ነገረ ማርያም (Dərsanä ᾽əmma (sic!); Nägärä Maryam (the latter is a false identification)

Contributors

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

Mäzgäbä Śəllase (f. 30ra,5-6) (commissioner)

General Note

ff. Ir-IIv (rearguard): empty; Monthly readings marked on the upper margin; The ms has been rebound wrongly, several folios are displaced

Physical Description Note

Number of folios: 103, 2 (I-II); f. 63v-64r not filmed; European foliation; Number of quires: c. 16-18; Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: Irregular 14-21 lines

Topic

Marian literature
Apocrypha
Homiletics

Country

Ethiopia

State/Province

Tigray