About this work
The demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ sitting on a throne
Original catalogue wording
5. The demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ sitting on a throne | 6. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus Christ | 7. Two angels weighing the cannibal's good and bad deeds in a scale
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 015. The demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ sitting on a thronePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
Caption lost in top margin; How the demons took the soul of the man-eater; Fire of Sheol
- 026. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus ChristPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady Mary asked her beloved Son and he showed mercy for her sake to the soul of that man-eater by reason of a handful of water; How our Lady Mary took the soul of the man-eater from the hand of the demon and seized him with her hand
- 037. Two angels weighing the cannibal's good and bad deeds in a scalePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-center
How the angel weighed the souls and the hanful of water and how the water was stronger in the scale than the 78 souls
- Source date
- 1721-1730
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7606
- Folio
- 161r
- Recorded provenance
- not given on vHMML
- 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 1567 (3 episode rows)