Monk Made Young Again
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Monk Made Young Again
- 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. 14r, s. 29, 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 161 has 3 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The Jewish priest lying on the ground after his fall in the foreground of the miniature (bottom-left).
- 2. St Mary sitting on a throne with the two deacons in the background and raising him by her hand (right). The object(s) are throne. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 3. The Jewish priest standing before St Mary, who is sitting on the throne and performs a gesture of blessing (top-left). The object(s) are throne. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How he fell from exhaustion when he bowed.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 35. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 44.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1633.
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