Three Husbandless Daughters
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Three Husbandless Daughters
- 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. 50b, 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 57 has 3 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. St Mary appearing to the poor widow in a dream (bottom-left). The object(s) are shroud.
- 2. The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by persons (bottom-right). The object(s) are bed; blanket; pillow; jewelry. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 3. The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmith (top). The object(s) are ax; hoe.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How she appeared to the widow in a dream, How she took her eldest daughter.
- 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 51.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1508.
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