Blind Girl Healed
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Blind Girl Healed
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1800-1899. You can view this painting in the manuscript Museum of the Bible, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 277, f. 60v, s. 65a, 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 59 has 4 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child (bottom-center). The object(s) are church; tree.
- 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl (bottom-center). The object(s) are bed; blanket.
- 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes (bottom-left). The object(s) are breast milk. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 4. The parents consult with physicians to heal their daughter (bottom-right). The object(s) are hat.
- 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 1688.
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