Blind Girl Healed
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Blind Girl 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. 48a, 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 59 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes (full). The object(s) are jewelry; breast milk. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: The wife of Abraham, Gera, with her daughter, how she asked our Lady Mary and she healed her daughter whose eyes were blind.
- 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 51.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 229.
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