London, British Library, BL Additional 16192
Massimo Villa
This manuscript description is based on the catalogues listed in the Catalogue Bibliography
Collection: Additional
Other identifiers: Dillmann cat. XLI, Dillmann 41
General description
Taʾāmmǝra Māryām, Dǝrsāna Gabrǝʾel
Number of Text units: 77
Number of Codicological units: 4
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Origin
1350-1847 Not recently written according to Dillmann 1847.
Provenance
Collected by Carl Wilhelm Isenberg and Johann Ludwig Krapf .
Additions In this unit there are in total .
Catalogue Bibliography
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Dillmann, C. F. A. 1847. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur, III: Codices Aethiopicos amplectens (n.p.: E Museo Britannico, 1847). page 47b
Physical Description
Form of support
Parchment Codex
Extent
Foliation
State of preservation
deficient
Condition
The manuscript is affected by humidity and stained with dirt. Text on some ff. is barely legible or illegible due to faded ink.
Layout
Layout note 1
Number of columns: 2
Codicological Unit p1
Origin of codicological unit 1
1350-1549 (dating on palaeographic grounds)
Summary of codicological unit 1
- p1_i1 (check the viewerFols 1–2 ), Introduction to the Miracles of Mary
Contents
Codicological Unit p2
Origin of codicological unit 2
1650-1849 (dating on palaeographic grounds)
Summary of codicological unit 2
- p2_i1 (check the viewerFols 3–8 ), Maṣḥafa śǝrʿāt za-waṣʾa ʾǝm-manbara Mārqos ḥawāryā ʾǝm-makāna maʿāllǝqā
- p2_i2 (check the viewerFols 8v–22 ), Mysteries revealed by Jesus Christ to before his Assumption
Contents
check the viewerFols 8v–22 Mysteries revealed by Jesus Christ to John son of Zebedee before his Assumption
Incipit (Gǝʿǝz ): check the viewerFol. 8v ዝንቱ፡ ምሥጢራተ፡ አምላካዊት፡ ዘነገሮ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ [ክርስቶስ፡] ለዮሐንስ፡ ረድኡ፡ ወልደ፡ ዘብዴዎስ፡ እምቅድመ፡ ዕርገቱ፡
Palaeography of codicological unit 2
Hand 1
of codicological unit 2Script: Ethiopic
Ink: Black, red.
check the viewerFols 3–22Codicological Unit p3
Origin of codicological unit 3
1425-1574 (dating on palaeographic grounds)
Summary of codicological unit 3
- p3_i1
(check the viewerFols 23–94 ),
ተአምሪሃቲሃ፡ ለእግዝእትነ፡ ማርያም፡
- p3_i1.1 (check the viewerFols 23ra–24ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Hildephonsus (Dexius) of Toledo
- p3_i1.2 (check the viewerFols 24ra–24vb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of an evil officer at Tarsus in Cilicia who loved Mary and had an apparition of Jesus
- p3_i1.3 (check the viewerFols 24vb–25va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Qirās, a brigand of Galatia, saved by Mary from hanging
- p3_i1.4 (check the viewerFols 25va–26rb ), Miracle of Mary: How a great king in Rome dedicated an altar to Virgin Mary and Her Child
- p3_i1.5 (check the viewerFols 26rb–27ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the sinful deacon ʾAstirās whom Mary ordered to be buried in the believers' graveyard
- p3_i1.6 (check the viewerFols 27ra–27vb ), Miracle of Mary: How Nicodemus the Persian knight became a Christian
- p3_i1.7 (check the viewerFols 27vb–28ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the Phoenician evil man called Bārok
- p3_i1.8 (check the viewerFols 28rb–29ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Bishop Philoteus
- p3_i1.9 (check the viewerFols 29ra–29va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Anastasius, a deacon of Rome
- p3_i1.10 (check the viewerFols 29va–30rb ), Miracle of Mary: How the monk Gerdan obeyed the lust of the flesh and cut his own throat and how the Virgin Mary brought his soul back to his body
- p3_i1.11 (check the viewerFols 30rb–30vb ), Miracle of Mary: How a bishop removed a priest from his office and how the Virgin Mary rebuked the bishop
- p3_i1.12 (check the viewerFols 31ra–32rb ), Miracle of Mary: How a shoemaker's daughter called Mary was taken possession of a horse-solder, who spared her virginity
- p3_i1.13 (check the viewerFols 32va–33ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a Jewish boy from Tyrus, saved by Mary from the furnace
- p3_i1.14 (check the viewerFols 33ra–33va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a pregnant woman
- p3_i1.15 (check the viewerFols 33vb–34rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a shipwrecked pilgrim
- p3_i1.16 (check the viewerFols 34rb–35vb ), Miracle of Mary: The divorced wife who prayed for revenge against her rival (General record)
- p3_i1.17 (check the viewerFols 35vb–36vb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a hanged brigand resuscitated because he loved the Virgin
- p3_i1.18 (check the viewerFols 36vb–37va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the youth Zechariah, from Rome
- p3_i1.19 (check the viewerFols 37va–37vb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Juliana and Barbara from Bethlehem
- p3_i1.20 (check the viewerFols 37vb–38va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary caused her son to appear in the form of a boy to a worshipper (General record)
- p3_i1.21 (check the viewerFols 38va–39va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary sent a vision to a young man and caused him to embrace the ascetic life
- p3_i1.22 (check the viewerFols 39va–40rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of an officer of Ephesus who was innocently crucified and saved by Mary
- p3_i1.23 (check the viewerFols 40rb–41va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of Sophia, abbess of Mount Carmel
- p3_i1.24 (check the viewerFols 41va–42va ), Miracle of Mary: How a widow forsook her duties in the Church and lived in sin, how her place had been filled by the Virgin Mary
- p3_i1.25 (check the viewerFols 42va–43rb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary and her Son appeared in a beehive
- p3_i1.26 (check the viewerFols 43rb–43va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a Jew of ʾAḫmīm
- p3_i1.27 (check the viewerFols 43va–44ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the scribe Damianus from Philippi
- p3_i1.28 (check the viewerFols 44ra–44va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the Bishop of Rome, ʾAbbās (Short version)
- p3_i1.29 (check the viewerFols 44va–45ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of ʾArsimā, whom Mary announced that two girls would be exempted from wordly desires
- p3_i1.30 (check the viewerFols 45ra–45va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a sinful woman who swallowed a scorpion
- p3_i1.31 (check the viewerFols 45va–46ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary administered to certain monks a celestial compound to digest their food
- p3_i1.32 (check the viewerFols 46ra–46va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary rebuked a woman who gave up fasting at her husband's command
- p3_i1.33 (check the viewerFols 46va–47vb ), Miracle of Mary: The noblewoman who was persuaded by her spiritual father to give away her fine clothes
- p3_i1.34 (check the viewerFols 47vb–49ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary and our Lord became sureties to a Jew for the debt owed to him by a certain merchant of Constantinople
- p3_i1.35 (check the viewerFols 49ra–49va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the drunk monk Timotewos (?), saved by the Virgin
- p3_i1.36 (check the viewerFols 49va–50va ), Miracle of Mary: How a woman consigned to the devil the son she conceived on Easter eve
- p3_i1.37 (check the viewerFols 50va–51vb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary protected a philantropic merchant who had beggared himself
- p3_i1.38 (check the viewerFols 51vb–52va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary and St Peter saved from hell the souls of Peter the deacon and Stephen, two brothers from Constantinople
- p3_i1.39 (check the viewerFols 52va–53vb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary delivered from hell the soul of an evil man who had intended to build a church in her name
- p3_i1.40 (check the viewerFols 53vb–55ra ), Miracle of Mary: How a bishop from St Peter's church in Rome stole holy oil and bought two pearls for Mary after having been rebuked
- p3_i1.41 (check the viewerFols 55ra–56va ), Miracle of Mary: How an avaricious priest refused to leave the bed of a rich man to go to a dying woman
- p3_i1.42 (check the viewerFols 56va–57rb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary saved a young widow from a knight, who became a monk
- p3_i1.43 (check the viewerFols 57rb–58ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary converted a demented herdsman and delivered him from Satan
- p3_i1.44 (check the viewerFols 58ra–58va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a monk in the monastery of St. Ephrem, on an island in the river of Tigris
- p3_i1.45 (check the viewerFols 58va–60ra ), Miracle of Mary: How a knight loved a lady and prayed to Mary who appeared to him and how he became a monk
- p3_i1.46 (check the viewerFols 60ra–61ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary told a treasurer of a church to kiss her cheeks (General record)
- p3_i1.47 (check the viewerFols 61ra–62va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the merchant who was offered riches for denying the faith
- p3_i1.48 (check the viewerFols 62va–63vb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary caused a storm to cease and saved sheep and took the shepherd to Paradise
- p3_i1.49 (check the viewerFols 63vb–64va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary with shrouded face was seen by a collector of firewood who acquired wealth through her protection
- p3_i1.50 (check the viewerFols 64va–65ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the image of the Virgin Mary in a Church bowed to the monks
- p3_i1.51 (check the viewerFols 65ra–65vb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a brigand who loved Mary and whose funeral she commanded to the bishop
- p3_i1.52 (check the viewerFols 65vb–66rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a picture of Mary speaking to a worker
- p3_i1.53 (check the viewerFols 66rb–67vb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the Bishop of Rome, ʾAbbās (Long version)
- p3_i1.54 (check the viewerFols 67vb–69ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a baptized Jewish boy called Gǝrānin saved by Mary from fire
- p3_i1.55 (check the viewerFols 69ra–70ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary raised a dead knight to fight against Golyād
- p3_i1.56 (check the viewerFols 70ra–70vb ), Miracle of Mary: How an Ishmaelite was converted when he saw oil and milk flowing from the breasts of a picture of the Virgin Mary
- p3_i1.57 (check the viewerFols 70vb–72vb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary appeared to a young man and made him swear he would not marry and how he ran away after his father chose a bride and broke his neck
- p3_i1.58 (check the viewerFols 72vb–74vb ), Miracle of Mary: The young man who was ready to serve Satan, but refused to deny St Mary
- p3_i1.59 (check the viewerFols 74vb–77ra ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary saved a lady from adultery by causing her to read the Prayers for the Dead and appeared to her
- p3_i1.60 (check the viewerFols 77ra–80ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a nobleman who established a hospital and took Satan as assistant
- p3_i1.61 (check the viewerFols 80ra–80va ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary delivered from the devils the soul of an avaricious farmer who had given alms in her name
- p3_i1.62 (check the viewerFols 80va–81va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a sinful abbot who appears a year after his death to announce his salvation by Mary
- p3_i1.63 (check the viewerFols 81va–82rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a Jew of Constantinople punished for throwing out an image of Mary
- p3_i1.64 (check the viewerFols 82rb–84rb ), Miracle of Mary: How the Virgin Mary forgave a lady who commited incest with her son and murdered their child
- p3_i1.65 (check the viewerFols 84va–85va ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a prince saved by Mary after being punished for having wrongly assigned an abbot
- p3_i1.66 (check the viewerFols 85va–86va ), Miracle of Mary: How a young man placed a ring on the finger of a figure of the Virgin Mary, who regarded it as a ring of betrothal
- p3_i1.67 (check the viewerFols 87va–88rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a rich man who cast a loaf to a beggar and was saved by the Virgin after being condemned by Jesus
- p3_i1.68 (check the viewerFols 88va–90va ), Miracle of Mary: The Story of the Cannibal of Qǝmr
- p3_i1.69 (check the viewerFols 90va–91ra ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of the youth Zechariah, from Rome
- p3_i1.70 (check the viewerFols 91ra–92rb ), Miracle of Mary: A man mutilates himself after committing a sexual sin (General record)
- p3_i1.71 (check the viewerFols 92rb–93rb ), Miracle of Mary: How a bishop removed a priest from his office and how the Virgin Mary rebuked the bishop
- p3_i1.72 (check the viewerFols 93rb–94rb ), Miracle of Mary: Miracle of a hanged brigand resuscitated because he loved the Virgin
Contents
check the viewerFols 23–94 ተአምሪሃቲሃ፡ ለእግዝእትነ፡ ማርያም፡ (CAe 3585) 72 miracles. A lacuna occurs on check the viewerfols 86–87 , at the end of miracle no. 66
Explicit (Gǝʿǝz ): በዝየ፡ ተፈጸመ፡ ተአምሪሃ፡ ለማርያም፡ ወኵሉ፡ ዘአንበበ፡ ዘንተ፡ አመ፡ በዓላ፡ ለማርያም፡ ወበሰንበተ፡ ክርስቲያን፡ ረከብነ፡ ዘይብል፡ ትመጽእ፡ ማርያም፡ ወትባርክ፡ ወተኀትም፡ በአጽባዕተ፡ እዳ፡ ዘእንበለ፡ ሕሳዌ፡ ለዓለመ፡ ዓለም፡ አሜን።
Decoration of codicological unit 3 In this unit there are in total 1 .
Miniatures notes
- miniature:
check the viewerFol. 94v
Coloured image of Our Lady Mary with Child Jesus, protected by Michael and Gabriel .
Palaeography of codicological unit 3
Hand 2
of codicological unit 3Script: Ethiopic
Ink: Black, red.
check the viewerFols 23–94Codicological Unit p4
Origin of codicological unit 4
1450-1549 (dating on palaeographic grounds)
Summary of codicological unit 4
- p4_i1 (check the viewerFols 95–101 ), ድርሳን፡ ዘገብርኤል፡ ሊቀ፡ መላእክት፡ አመ፡ በዓሉ፡ ዘይትነበብ፡
Contents
Palaeography of codicological unit 4
Hand 3
of codicological unit 4Script: Ethiopic
Ink: Black, red.
check the viewerFols 95–101Select one of the keywords listed from the record to see related data
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