Miracles of Mary

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Text 1: ff. 4r-80r: Miracles of Mary (the canonical collection) Text 2: ff. 80v-82r: Miracles of Jesus (Tä᾽ammərä ᾽Iyyäsus), episode 21 (Olive branch planted by Zacchaeus); Text 3: ff. 83r-97r: Praise of Mary (Wəddase Maryam), starting from Monday (not Sunday); Text 4: f. 98r: A short account of Mary’s dormition; Text 5: ff. 98v-103r: a mälkə᾽ of Jesus; Text 6: Two non-canonical Miracles of Mary: 6:1. (ff. 104r-108va1) Lament of the Apostles after Mary’s death; when they try to bury her body, Jews attack them, Jesus arrives with angels, the earth devourse them; 6:2. (ff. 108va2-110v) Tofonyas the Jew, who wanted to break Mary’s bier, and got his hands cut by an angel, prayed to Mary whereupon his hands were restored

In collections

Gunda Gunde Manuscripts

Details

Address

Monastery of Gunda Gunde

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Local Identifier

GG-043

Title

f. 1r: ተአምረ፡ ማርያም፡ - Tä᾽ammərä Maryam

Contributors

Michael Gervers (researcher)

Witold Witakowski (data contributor)

Arkä ᾽Iyyäsus (አርከ፡ ኢየሱስ፡), f. 24vb,8 and 48vb,7 (scribe)

The monastery of GG, previously: Säbagadis Zä-Mänfäs Qəddus, däjjazmach of Agamä (who donated it to the monastery) earlier owner(s) was/were Gäbrä Maryam (f. 56vb,3) or Gäbrä Ḥəywät (f. 104ra8) (owner)

General Note

ff. 1v-3r: a prayer to Mary, unfinished (free places left for Mary’s name to be written in red); ff. 3v, 82v and I-III (i.e. 111-113) empty

Physical Description Note

Number of folios: 113 (European foliation, the last 3 fols, empty, numbered I-III); Number of quires: 16; Number of columns of the text: 2; Number of lines in columns: 20 (ruling well seen)

Topic

Marian literature; Christian legends

Country

Ethiopia

State/Province

Tigray