Giyorgis Haddis in Prison
Image displayed with permission of Bibliothèque nationale de France
Giyorgis Haddis in Prison
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Gondar, Western Ethiopia, and dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ethiopien d'Abbadie Collection, Manuscript No. 114, f. 48v, s. 98, 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 68 has 2 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Giyorgis lying in prison bound at his hands and feet, with a dove appearing to him (left). The object(s) are prison; bonds; shackles; dove; bird; bed; church.
- 2. Giyorgis standing healed from his wounds (right). The object(s) are church.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How our Lady Mary shaded him with her wings in the likeness of a dove while Giyorgis Ḥäddis was in prison.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 39. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 43.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1190.
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