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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ethiopien d'Abbadie Collection, Manuscript No. 114

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1700 and 1799. This date is estimated, based on a print or electronic catalog entry about the manuscript.

This manuscript is held in the repository of Bibliothèque nationale de France in their Ethiopien d'Abbadie Collection in Paris, France. This manuscript's last known location in Ethiopia was West: Gondar.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 33.

This manuscript has a lot of paintings of Marian miracle stories: 63. To see the paintings in this manuscript, go to its PEMM Paintings by Manuscript page.

Fortunately, these paintings are digitized and available online in color.

This manuscript has a total of 111 folios and 230 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 20 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by C. Conti Rossini and W.F. Macomber.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is d'Abbadie (BNF) 114.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is BNFabb114. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include Ethiopien d'Abbadie 114; CRA 55; CR-Paris (BNF) 55.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris contains 1034 manuscripts, one of the largest collections of Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in Europe. This vast collection comprises several subcollections. First is the Antoine d’Abbadie Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, which contains 283 Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts acquired by Antoine d’Abbadie. The Antoine d’Abbadie Collection has been cataloged in several catalogs written by Antoine d’Abbadie (1859), Marius Chaîne (1912), and Carlo Conti Rossini (1914). Second are several subcollections that utilize the shelfmark “Éthiopien”. These include manuscripts from royal and imperial collections, manuscripts collected by Casimir Mondon-Vidhaillet, and manuscripts collected by Marcel Griaule in Gondar in 1932. The Éthiopien Collection has been cataloged in several catalogs written by Hermann Zotenberg (1877), Marius Chaîne (1913), and Sylvain Grébaut (1938, 1941, 1944, and 1954). Third is the manuscript collection acquired by Duchesne-Fourney, which was cataloged by J. Blanchart in 1909. Fourth is the manuscript collection acquired by Marcel Cohen, which was cataloged by Marcel Cohen (1912) and Marius Chaîne (1914).

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d'Abbadie (BNF) 114

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Paintings	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	8r	2	-	-	-	13
2	A monk without food or clothes received a garment from the Virgin Mary	10v	1	-	-	-	404
3	The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary	11v	1	-	-	-	187
4	An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again	12v	1	-	-	-	161
5	The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden ink	14v	1	-	-	-	162
6	The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed him	16r	2	-	-	-	163
7	The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to him	18v	1	-	-	-	19
8	Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to church	20v	1	-	-	-	27
9	The French artist knocked off his scaffolding by Satan (who was angry because of how he was being painted) is caught by the Virgin Mary	23r	1	-	-	-	33
10	Dabra Nagadeyan's dying monk prays in front of her icon to go to Jerusalem and the Virgin Mary takes him from Lower Egypt to all around the holy land	25r	2	-	-	-	54
11	A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with roses	26v	2	-	-	-	153
12	The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church	29v	1	-	-	-	154
13	Dabra Qalemon's gifts from two Arabs who, journeying on the Nile in Egypt, fall into the water due to a storm and are saved from crocodiles	32r	2	-	-	-	16
14	The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.	34v	2	-	-	-	46
15	John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	36v	1	-	-	-	43
16	The rich man from Colosse who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwez	39r	1	-	-	-	48
17	Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk	44r	1	-	-	-	59
18	A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughters	44r	1	-	-	-	57
19	The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sin	46r	1	-	-	-	61
20	George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Mary	47v	1	-	-	-	68

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