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
How the demons grabbed the soul of the man-eater; How our Lord commanded to conduct the soul of the man-eater to Sheol; Fires of Sheol
- 026. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus ChristPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How our Lady Mary asked her beloved son and he showed mercy for me to the soul of that man-eater by reason of the handful of water; How our Lady Mary grabbed the soul of the man-eater from the hands of the demons and grasped 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 and the water overpowered the scale
- 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
- 75r
- 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 1570 (3 episode rows)