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Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearl — UNESCO (HMML) 11.01, fol. 16v

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library · 11.01 · 16v

17th–18th centuriesManuscript paintingsPrinceton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

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Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

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Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearl

Original catalogue wording

4. Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearl | 2. Mary helps the man when he calls on her and he shoots forty arrows at the serpent

Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

Scenes and visual evidence

  1. 01
    4. Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearlPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
  2. 02
    2. Mary helps the man when he calls on her and he shoots forty arrows at the serpentPosition recorded by PEMM: right
Source date
Second half 17th/first half 18th
Date evidence
The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
Holding institution
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Shelfmark
11.01
Folio
16v
Catalogue source
Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
Source record
paintings.csv, Painting ID 1284 (2 episode rows)