Scribe with Golden Ink
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Scribe with Golden Ink
- 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. 15v, s. 32, 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 162 has 3 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Dǝmyānos writing the name of St Mary in a manuscript (left). The object(s) are ink; ink well; ink horn; pen; reed; book; folio; knife; pen knife; lunellum; stool. The living being(s) are scribe.
- 2. In the background, the pillar of gold, on which Mary inscribed Dǝmyānos' name is depicted (center). The object(s) are column; sistrum.
- 3. Dǝmyānos lying down before the icon of Mary, which performs a gesture of blessing (right). The object(s) are church; pillow; bed; blanket. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Dǝmyānos wrote the name of our Lady.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 35. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 47.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1646.
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