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Princeton University Library · 65 · 27v

Princeton University Library, Ethiopic Manuscripts collection

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1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene | 2. The painter falling down from the scaffold | 3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painterPrinceton University Library, Ethiopic Manuscripts collectionRightsNo Known Copyright (rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/); Princeton University Library charges no permission fee and asks only for citation and image credit.
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1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene | 2. The painter falling down from the scaffold | 3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painter — PEM (Princeton) 65, fol. 27v

Princeton University Library · 65 · 27v

18th centuryManuscript paintingsPrinceton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

What this record describes

1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene | 2. The painter falling down from the scaffold | 3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painter

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

Scenes and visual evidence

  1. 01
    1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scenePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
  2. 02
    2. The painter falling down from the scaffoldPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left

    How he fell

  3. 03
    3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painterPosition recorded by PEMM: right

    How she raised him

Source date
First half 18th
Date evidence
The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from ms (paleography)”.
Holding institution
Princeton University Library
Shelfmark
65
Folio
27v
Catalogue source
Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
Source record
paintings.csv, Painting ID 1489 (3 episode rows)