About this work
The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy
Original catalogue wording
1. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy | 2. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosyPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How Patriarch Zacharias rebuked Mercurius and prevented him from distributing the Eucharist because of his leprosy; How Mercurius revealed the leprosy of his flesh to the patriarch
- 022. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How Mercurius prayed before the icon of our Lady Mary and was healed from his leprosy; How our Lady Mary showed Mercurius with her hand that he was healed from his leprosy.
- Source date
- 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
- Shelfmark
- 55
- Folio
- 58v
- Recorded provenance
- Gondar
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1250 (2 episode rows)