Annunciation: Gabriel's Appearance
Image displayed with permission of Museum of the Bible
Annunciation: Gabriel's Appearance
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1650-1749. You can view this painting in the manuscript Museum of the Bible, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 333, f. 8v, s. 9a, 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 book; manuscript; book stand; flower; plant; heavenly clouds. The living being(s) are Mary; Gabriel; angel; God.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the angel Gabriel announced the good news.
- 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 2132.
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