Church Moves to Shore
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Church Moves to Shore
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript taken from King Tewodros's royal library in Magdala, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1600-1699. You can view this painting in the manuscript British Library, "Orient" Collection, Manuscript No. 639, f. 85v, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 46 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. The monastery with its monks that has been moved to the shore of the sea (full). The object(s) are church; monastery; tree; water.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: The monastery of 'Əqona that our Lady transported to the banks of the Mediterranean in an hour of the night when it was the 23rd of Näḥässe; How the men woke up the next day and were amazed and performed wailing; The Mediterranean Sea.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 36. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 66.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 147.
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