Three Husbandless Daughters
Image displayed with permission of Museum of the Bible
Three Husbandless Daughters
- 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. 95r, s. 95b, 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 57 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting (right). The object(s) are church; icon; handkerchief. The living being(s) are Mary.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How She told the widow that She received her petition.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 35. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 51.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 2167.
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