Images: Stefan Bombeck (1. illuminations; 2. text)
Other shelfmark(s): none
Physical description: parchment, 30 × 22.5 cm, iv + 498 + ii pp., 2 cols.
Language(s): Ethiopic
Date: 1398–1408
Provenance: Däbrä Tabor
Contents:
Protevangelium of James (pp. 2–23)
Vision of Theophilus (pp. 162–211)
Dormition of the Virgin by the Apostle John (pp. 214–228)
Lament of the Virgin (pp. 230–270)
Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (pp. 272–320)
Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin by Pseudo-Cyriacus of Behnesa (pp. 322–336)
Homily on the Building of the First Church of the Virgin, by Pseudo-Basil of Caesarea (pp. 398-423)
Miracles of Mary (pp. 450–476)
Additional Contents: additional homilies on Mary.
Additional scholarship:
Bombeck, Stefan. Die Geschichte der heiligen Maria in einer alten äthiopischen Handschrift. 2 vols. Dortmund: Praxiswissen, 2004 and 2010 (facsimile of Däbrä Tabor manuscript, vol. 1; German translation, vol. 2).
Heldman, Marilyn Eiseman, S. C. Munro-Hay, and Roderick Grierson. African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993 (reproduction and discussion of illuminations).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 1 February 2020.