Annunciation: Gabriel's Appearance
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Annunciation: Gabriel's Appearance
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Shoa, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1770-1775. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 2999, f. 89r, s. 94b, 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 (top-right). The object(s) are string; thread; flower; plant; dove; bird. The living being(s) are Mary; Gabriel; angel; Holy Spirit.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: Gabriel announced the good news to Mary; The Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove.
- 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 926.
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