About this work
The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl | 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
The woman whose name was Gera Anest, how she prayed to our Lady Mary with her blind daughter; The mother of the blind daughter
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How our Lady awakened her; How the mother and daughter slept; The name of the blind daughter
- 033. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyesPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How she healed her eyes with milk
- Source date
- 17th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 639
- Folio
- 98r
- Recorded provenance
- South: Looted from Madḫāne ʿĀlam Church at መቅደላ Mäqdäla Magdala, Tewodros II collected manuscripts from all the country, so provenance prior to this unknown
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1515 (3 episode rows)