Madonna and Child
Image displayed with permission of Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library
Madonna and Child
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Wallo, Southern Ethiopia, and dated to 1400. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 9002, f. 133v, s. 140a, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 7011 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Motherhood: Madonna and child (full). The object(s) are couch. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ; angel; Michael; Gabriel; Emperor Dawit; patron.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: Icon of our Lady Mary with her beloved Son; Icon of King Dawit, protected by the faith of the Trinity.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 225. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 227.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 615.
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