Mary Crowned with Roses
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Mary Crowned with Roses
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Princeton University Library, Ethiopic Manuscripts, Manuscript No. 57, f. 54v, 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 153 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. The youth Zakāryās fastening a crown of roses to an icon of St Mary (full). The object(s) are rug; couch; handkerchief; roses; crown. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Zakāryās fastened a crown of roses to our Lady Mary.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 38. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 67.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 437.
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