Legends of Our Lady Mary the perpetual virgin & her mother Ḥannâ
Subtitle: translated from the Ethiopic manuscripts collected by King Theodore at Makdala and now in the British museum, by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge
Publisher: London, Martin Hopkinson and Co
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction page; title: I. Description of the Virgin Mary by Epiphanius xxii; title: II. The Worship of the Virgin Mary in Egypt and Ethiopia xxv; title: III. The Cult of Isis and the Worship of the Virgin Mary compared 1; title: IV. Ethiopic Literature of the Virgin Mary lxi; title: V. The Translations printed herein lxx; title: Translations; title: The History of Hanna : — i; title: First day of the week 5; title: Salutations to the Member of the body of Hanna 8; title: Second day of the week 11; title: Third day of the week 24; title: Fourth day of the week 31; title: Fifth day of the week 40; title: Colophon 47; title: Sixth day of the week 48; title: (a) The Covenant of Christ with the blessed Virgin Mary 54; title: (b) The Covenant of Christ with the blessed Virgin Mary 58; title: The History of the Virgin Mary by Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria 61; title: The History of the Virgin Mary by Timothy, Patriarch of Alexandria 81; title: The Annunciation of Gabriel to Mary 102; title: The Conception and Birth of our Lady Mary 122; title: The Discoverer of the History of the Virgin Mary 143; title: The History of the Death of the Virgin Mary as told by St. John 152; title: The History of the Departure of the Virgin Mary from this world 168; title: The History of the Flight of the Virgin Mary to Mount Lebanon 202; title: Salutations to the Members of the body of the Virgin Mary 236; title: The Vision of the Virgin Mary which she told to John, the son of Zebedee 245; title: The Wedase Maryam 279; title: The ’Arganona Dengel 297; title: Index 305; title: LIST OF PLATES; title: PLATE; title: I. The oldest known Ethiopian picture of the Virgin with the Child resting on her right arm frontispiece FACINC PAGE; title: II. Facsimile of a page of the Life of Hanna I; title: III. St. George spearing the Dragon 2; title: IV. Hanna and Joachim praying for offspring 6; title: V. The birth of Mary from Hanna’s right side 10; title: VI. Saint George spearing the Dragon 14; title: VII. The Virgin and Child 18; title: VIII. The oldest known Ethiopian picture of the Crucifixion, XVth century 22; title: IX. The Crucifixion, XVIIth or XVIIIth century 26; title: X. Portrait of St. Gabra Manfas KSdus 30; title: Portrait of St. Takla Haymandt; title: XI. Portrait of ’Abfina Stephen 34; title: Portrait of ’Abuna ’Abakarazun; title: XII. Portrait of ’Abuna Mazgaba Salasha 38; title: Portrait of ’Abuna Samuel; title: XIII. Portrait of ’Abuna ’Amda Salashe 42; title: Portrait of ’Abuna ’Ezra; title: XIV. St. Theodore of the East slaying a viper in human form 46; title: XV. Christ making a covenant with Mary 54; title: XVI. Christ risen from the Tomb addressing Mary 56; title: XVII. The Virgin Mary 58; title: XVIII. Mary accepting from Bishop Dexius the Book of her Miracles which he had written 62; title: XIX. The Virgin Mary rescuing the souls of two scribes from the Devil 68; title: XX. Mary removing a monastery to a river 78; title: XXI. Mary saving a falling painter from death 88; title: XXII. Mary rescuing from drowning a woman in childbirth and her child 108; title: XXIII. Mary rescuing the soul of a cannibal murderer from the Devil 128; title: XXIV. An angel delivering Sophia, Abbess of Mount Carmel, of a child under Mary’s direction 138; title: XXV. The Virgin Mary renewing the strength and youth of Katir her servant 148; title: XXVI. The Virgin Mary restoring the sight of John of Bakansf 150; title: XXVII. A variant of the scene on the preceding plate 152; title: XXVIII. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary and her sitting on the right hand of Christ 156; title: XXIX. The Virgin Mary delivering two souls from the clutches of the Devil 172; title: XXX. Zacharias placing a wreath of roses on the head of the Virgin Mary 236; title: XXXI. The Virgin Mary visiting Paradise and Hell 246; title: XXXII. Maba’a Sgyon taken to the bosom of the Virgin Mary with the Christ-Child 256; title: XXXIII. Theophilus hearing the trumpets proclaiming the arrival of the soul of Gabra Krestds in heaven 266