Mistreated Priest Healed
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Mistreated Priest Healed
- 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. 54b, 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 2 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 (left). The object(s) are church; stick; club; bed; blanket.
- 2. St Mary sitting on a throne surrounded by two angels with the custodian of the church sitting before her (right). The object(s) are club; stick; heavenly clouds; jewelry. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: (partially illegible) How the custodian drove out the elderly priest whose name was Kaṭir from the church of our Lady.
- 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 1202.
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