Childhood: Angels Tend Mary
Image displayed with permission of Berlin Staatsbibliothek
Childhood: Angels Tend Mary
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1750-1849. You can view this painting in the manuscript Berlin Staatsbibliothek, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 74, f. 51r, s. 107, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 7006 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Childhood: Angels tending to Mary in the temple (related to ID 315) (bottom). The object(s) are gift; food; handkerchief; throne; head covering; cup; chalice. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Michael and Gabriel brought Mary bread and drink for twelve years.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 4. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 4.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 858.
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