About this work
The monk escapes through the wall of the church
Original catalogue wording
4. The monk escapes through the wall of the church | 2. The other monks preventing him for eating | 3. The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the ground
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 014. The monk escapes through the wall of the churchPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How Abba Saluśi left; Skullcap of Abba Śalusi
- 022. The other monks preventing him for eatingPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the monks prevented Abba Śalusi from eating beans/lupine seeds
- 033. The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the groundPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How Abba Śalusi prayed before the icon of Our Lady
- 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
- 72r
- 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 1444 (3 episode rows)