Bishop Composes Mary's Book
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Bishop Composes Mary's Book
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Addis Ababa, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1889-1890. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 1180, f. 8r, s. 19b, 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 13 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Hildephonsus of Toledo composes the book of the Taʾammǝra Māryā (full). The object(s) are throne; manuscript; book; folio; pen; reed; ink well; ink stand; ink horn. The living being(s) are Ildefonsus of Toledo; bishop; scribe; author.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, One God. We are beginning to write the miracles of our Lady, the two-fold Holy Virgin, Mary the mother of God. May her prayer and her blessing be with our king Śahlä Maryam and with our queen Wälättä Mika'el forever and ever amen. It is said that there was a bishop in the church of Ṭəlṭəlya whose name was Däqsəyos.
The paintings in this manuscript were painted by Elyas Haylu (1861, d. early 1900s), one of Ethiopia’s
most prominent artists during Emperor Menilek's era. He was one of the first Ethiopian artists to study painting in France. For more information, see the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica entry on this artist.- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 51. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 93.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 60.
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