The Blind Priest
Image displayed with permission of Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project
The Blind Priest
- 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. 44a, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 43 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. St Mary is taking out a breast and dropping her milk into the eyes of Yoḥannǝs (full). The object(s) are walking stick; jewelry; breast milk. The living being(s) are Mary; priest.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How she annoited his eye with milk and so our Lady Mary healed the old man Yoḥannǝs; How she healed the old man Yoḥannǝs with the milk of her breast.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 34. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 43.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 135.
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