Annunciation: Gabriel Appears to Mary
Image displayed with permission of Beta Lahem church, Gayant, Ethiopia
Annunciation: Gabriel Appears to Mary
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Gondar, Western Ethiopia, and dated to 1398-1409. You can view this painting in the manuscript Beta Lahem church, Gayant, Ethiopia, Library, Manuscript No. 1, f. 45, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 7008 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Annunciation: St Gabriel appears to Mary sewing or spinning (full). The object(s) are walking stick; spear; staff. The living being(s) are Mary; Gabriel; angel.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Gabriel announced to Mary she will incarnate the only-begotten Son.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 30. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 31.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 602.
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