Mistreated Priest Healed
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Mistreated Priest Healed
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript taken from King Tewodros's royal library in Magdala, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1650-1699. You can view this painting in the manuscript British Library, "Orient" Collection, Manuscript No. 645, f. 83r, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- Many Geʿez manuscript paintings are in "Synoptic Narrative Art” style; that is, a single painting depicts multiple moments in the story, providing a series of vignettes representing different plot points. PEMM calls these "episodes". This painting of PEMM Story ID 82 has 3 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The custodian of the church standing in front of the sitting Kaṭir ordering him to leave the church (top-left). The object(s) are hand cross.
- 2. St Mary sitting on a throne surrounded by two angels with the custodian of the church sitting before her (bottom-left). The object(s) are stool; spear. The living being(s) are Mary; angel.
- 3. Kaṭir standing before St Mary, who is sitting on throne and performs a blessing gesture (right). The object(s) are church; throne. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the custodian tormented the priest Kaṭir while poking his eye and he said to him 'Depart from the monastery'.
- 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 49.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1531.
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