Annunciation: Gabriel Appears to Mary
Image displayed with permission of Bibliothèque nationale de France
Annunciation: Gabriel Appears to Mary
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1400-1499. You can view this painting in the manuscript Bibliothèque nationale de France, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 53, f. 2v, s. 10, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 7008 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Annunciation: St Gabriel appears to Mary sewing or spinning (full). The object(s) are stool; string; thread. The living being(s) are Mary; Gabriel; angel.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: Where Gabriel announced to Mary about the birth of Christ.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 30. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 31.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1011.
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