The Blind Priest
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The Blind Priest
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Brown University, Ethiopic Collection, Manuscript No. 14, f. 44v, s. 107, 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 43 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. St Mary is taking out a breast and dropping her milk into the eyes of Yoḥannǝs (full). The object(s) are head covering; walking stick; jewelry; breast milk. The living being(s) are Mary; priest.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How she cured his eyes with her breastmilk.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 34. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 43.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 136.
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