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Madonna and Child flanked by an angel on each side; (S) Christ crowned with a crown of thorn (lC"'er'ata re'esu], f. Sb; (9) Crucifixion, f. 9a; (10) What seems to be either the second coming of Jesus or his ascension to heaven, f. lOa; (11) Hildephonsus of Toledo praising Mary, f. 22b; (12) Hildephonsus of Toledo writing the miracles of Mary, f. 26b; (13) how the Blessed Virgin blessed Ephraim the Syrian Potter, the author of her praises, Weddase Maryam, f. 27a; (14) how the Blessed Virgin blessed the farmer who complained to her that she does not respond to his greetings, f. 31b; (15) the flight to Egypt, f. 32a (16) how the Blessed Virgin appeared to the old Hebrew of Akhmim, f. 36a; (17) taking the census of the children of Israel, Lk. 2, 1-5, f. 36b; (IS) Abbas, a bishop in Rome, during Mass service, f. 38b; (19) how Abbas cut off his hand, f. 39a; (20) how the Blessed Virgin appeared to Yesbaq the Custodian, f. 42b; (21) how the Blessed Virgin came [caption, embraced] to Maryam, the child whose relatives left at home when they went to church, f. 44a; (22) how the painter fell from the ladder while painting the picture of the Blessed Virgin, f. 45a; (23) how the Blessed Virgin rescued the painter when he fell from the ladder while painting her picture, f. 46b; (24) the Blessed Virgin pointing her fingers to the sick man who prayed not to die before going to the Holy Land, f. 49a; (25) Zakkareyas, the young man who offered Mary flowers, and the thieves who watched him praying, f. 52b; (26) Zakkareyas decorating Mary's crown with flowers, f. 53a; (27) highway men robbing Juliana and Barbara, f. 55a; (28) highway men returning the food which they robbed from Juliana and Barbara, f. 55b; (29) the Blessed Virgin rescuing the Arabs who prayed to her when their boat was in trouble, f. 5Sb; (30) the Arabs, whom the Blessed Virgin rescued (see (29) above), offering their camels to the Monastery of Dabra Qalemon, fulfilling their vows, f. 59a; (30) the church of Dabra 'Eqona, 60b; (31) the church of Dabra 'Eqona moving to another place, f. 61a; (32) how the Blessed Virgin dropped her milk into the blind eyes of Y obannes Bakansi to restore his sight, f. 63a; (33) the battle at QWez, f. 66b; (35) how the Blessed Virgin restored the sight of the Colossian who was injured at the battle of QWez with the Turks, 67a; (36) Elsabet, the only child of Abreham and Gera from Upper Egypt, sees Mary in a vision, f. 69a; (37) the Blessed Virgin restoring the sight of Elsabet, f. 69b; (38) the Blessed Virgin appearing to the two copyists, f. 74b; (39) The Blessed Virgin appearing to Giyorgis l:Iaddis in the image of a dove, f. 75a; (40) Giyorgis l:Iaddis sleeping in prison, f. 76b; (41) the Blessed Virgin raising up Giyorgis l:Iaddis, f. 77a; (42) the Blessed Virgin punishing the custodian who asked the old priest Katir to leave the church, f. 79a; (43) the church of Mary with a clergyman standing inside and a (poor) young man sitting outside, f. 79b; (44) how the man with a stone foot [za-ebn egro] prayed, f. S3b; 364 (45) the bishop talking to the man with a stone foot after his foot was healed, f. 84a; (46) how the Blessed Virgin healed the stone-footed man, f. 85b; (47) the bishop admiring the miraculous story of the stone-footed European, Afrengawi, f. 86a; (48) how the Blessed Virgin healed the broken leg of a wretched woman at the church of l:Iarat ai-Rum, f. 88b; (49) how the angels, ordered by the blessed Virgin, took away the child from the womb of Abess Sophia who conceived sinfully, f. 9Ob; (50) how people stoned the wicked Barok and struck him with a sword but could not kill him, f.94a; (51) how the Blessed Virgin blessed the son of Abess Sophia to be a bishop, f. 94b; (52) the Blessed Virgin appearing in dream to Deacon Anestaseyos, f. 99a; (53) the icon of the Blessed Virgin at the monastery of Abba Oalemon, f. 99b; (54) the Blessed Virgin appearing to the monk who played fool so that people may not know his righteous deeds, f. 102b; (55) the monk who played fool throwing his cap against the wall of the church expecting miracle, f. 103a; (56) the cannibal from Oem(me)r, Bala'e sab', giving water to a poor man, f. 106b; (57) the farmer from whom the cannibal wanted to buy oxen, f. 107a; (58) the soul of the cannibal taking refuge with the Blessed Virgin, f. 107b; (59) the angel weighing the soul of the cannibal against the water which he gave to the poor man, f. 108a; (60) how the only son of a widow (who always prayed for her son) was hanged on a tree, f. 111a; (61) how the widow rescued her son from hanging, by her prayers, f. 111b; (62) how the pregnant woman who went to the church of St. Michael gave birth to a child protected from the tide by the clothes of the Blessed Virgin, f. 113b; (63) how the Blessed Virgin gave water to a dog with her shoe, f. 114a. Crude drawing of two men, one of them holding a spear in one hand and a sword in the other, f. 144b.
Description transcribed from the printed EMML catalogue; the manuscript image is not redistributed.
- Source date
- 20th century
- Date evidence
- Date wording transcribed from the printed EMML catalogue.
- Holding institution
- Church of Dabra Betel Sellase, Dase, Wallo
- Shelfmark
- EMML 4938
- Folio
- 9a
- Catalogue source
- Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) catalogues
- Source record
- EMML Catalogue, volume 10, PDF page 372