Healed with Breastmilk
Image displayed with permission of Museum of the Bible
Healed with Breastmilk
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1650-1749. You can view this painting in the manuscript Museum of the Bible, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 333, f. 146v, s. 147a, 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 135 has 2 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. A demon possesses a good captain and makes him violent so he is put in metal bonds (bottom-left). The object(s) are bonds; shackles.
- 2. Christ appears to the man and tells him to call upon Mary (right). The object(s) are bonds; shackles. The living being(s) are Jesus Christ.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the people seized the captain whom a demon possessed.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 3. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 5.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 2194.
- To reproduce this image online or in print, please contact the Museum of the Bible. PEMM does not own the rights.
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