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Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 43: Miracles of Mary (Tä'ammərä Maryam) and Miracles of Saint George (Tä'amərä Giyorgis), 1700s
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Fols. 5r, 6v, 8r: States "Commissioned by Sofənəyos Akəlidewos".
Large Arabic numbers added much later in pencil on bottom of folios.
Fols. 58r, 67v: In the Miracle of Mary text, the name of the owner/benefactor is listed as Särsä Micha'el.
Fols. 68r, 73v: In the Miracle of Saint George text, the name of the owner/benefactor is listed as Bəsə'a Giyorəgis.
Fol. 58r: A note in another, later hand is the beginning of a letter draft, that says "Letter sent from Bishop Mattewos, archbishop of the kingdom of Ethiopia, servant and apostle of Christ, the son of Saint Mark." Mattewos was bishop from 1889 to 1926.
Owner: Särsä Micha'el, Bəsə'a Giyorəgis.
No scribe listed.
No miniatures.
Gift of Bruce Willsie, Princeton Class of 1986.
- Arrangement
Arranged in manuscript number order, by accession. Numbers 29 and 67-71 are unassigned.
Collection History
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This cataloging project was made possible through generous support from the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Princeton University.
- Processing Information
The present finding aid was prepared in June-July 2009 by Kesis Melaku Terefe , Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Los Angeles, with assistance of Prof. Wendy Laura Belcher , Department of Comparative Literature and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. This cataloging project was made possible through generous support from the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Princeton University.
In 2022, restrictions on manuscripts No. 54, 57, and 65 were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
In 2022, manuscripts nos. 86-95 were added to the collection.
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Princeton Ethiopic Manuscript No. 43: Miracles of Mary (Tä'ammərä Maryam) and Miracles of Saint George (Tä'amərä Giyorgis); Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, C0776, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Bibliography
References: See references in manuscript no. 8. Regarding Miracles of Saint George, see Victor Arras, Miraculorum S. Georgii Megalomartyris collection altera, Louvain 1953 (CSCO 138,139); Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, pp. 763-764.