Wooden boards are not visible, six Coptic chain stitches, leather bound with tooled red leather, headband and tailband
Notes:
unfoliated, foliation supplied by cataloguer
Colophon:
no colophon
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
ff. [v + 199]
Outer Dimensions:
41.5 x 34.2 x 10.2 cm
Country:
Ethiopia
Date:
20th century
Layout:
ff. 1r–197v three columns; 33–35 lines
Script:
Gə‘əz
Scribe:
Abunä Gäbrä Qiros
Support:
Parchment
Representational Decoration:
1. F. iii v(erso): Saint George and the Dragon. 2. F. iv r(ecto): Madonna and Child. 3. F. vi v(erso): How the Virgin Mary was crowned by the Trinity. 4. F. 4v: How the Virgin Mary gave garment and chair to Saint Hildefonsus (Däqsǝyos), Bishop of Toled
Other Decoration:
ff. 1r, 5r (ornate and colorful ḫaräg); ff. 2r, 138v, 154r (a line of alternating red and black dots); multiple full stops are used as section dividers throughout (e.g., ff. 2r, 5r, 7r); f. 43r (a line of black dots).
Alphabet:
Ethiopic
Manuscript Text
Folio:
ff. [1r–197v]
Supplied Title:
Three Hundred Seventy One Miracles of Mary
Supplied Title NS:
ተአምረ፡ ማርያም፡
Language(s):
Gə‘əz
Notes To Text:
Each with a rhyming summary at the end. There are similarities with Princeton Ethiopic MS 41 which leaves four blank lines at the end of each miracle to be filled in later with the concluding summarizing hymn.
