About this work
The Jewish priest lying on the ground after his fall in the foreground of the miniature
Original catalogue wording
1. The Jewish priest lying on the ground after his fall in the foreground of the miniature | 2. St Mary sitting on a throne with the two deacons in the background and raising him by her hand | 3. The Jewish priest standing before St Mary, who is sitting on the throne and performs a gesture of blessing
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The Jewish priest lying on the ground after his fall in the foreground of the miniaturePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How he fell from exhaustion when he bowed
- 022. St Mary sitting on a throne with the two deacons in the background and raising him by her handPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How she raised the Hebrew priest grasping him with her hand
- 033. The Jewish priest standing before St Mary, who is sitting on the throne and performs a gesture of blessingPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How our Lady Mary blessed the Jewish man; How the bishop joined two bishops to help the Jewish man; How the Jewish priest prayed
- 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
- 14r
- 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 1633 (3 episode rows)