Girl Prevented from Church
Image displayed with permission of Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project
Girl Prevented from Church
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Shoa, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1800-1899. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project, HMML Project ID EMIP, Manuscript No. 1044, s. 29b, 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 27 has 2 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Māryām of Dafrā partakes of the Eucharist in the church (left). The object(s) are church; Eucharist; Eucharistic bread; head covering. The living being(s) are priest.
- 2. St Mary standing next to Māryām of Dafrā (right). The object(s) are jewelry. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: illegible.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 37. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 46.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1098.
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