Blind Girl Healed
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Blind Girl Healed
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Gondar, Western Ethiopia, and dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ethiopien d'Abbadie Collection, Manuscript No. 114, f. 43r, s. 87, 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 3 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 (top-left). The object(s) are church; icon; book; handkerchief. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ.
- 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl (bottom). The object(s) are church; bed; blanket. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes (top-right). The object(s) are church; icon; breast milk. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: The woman whose name was Gera Anest, how she prayed before the icon of our Lady Mary with her blind daughter.
- 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 1521.
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