About this work
The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the ground
Original catalogue wording
3. The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the ground | 4. The monk escapes through the wall of the church | 2. The other monks preventing him for eating | 5. The other monks find that only the skullcap was left behind
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 013. The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the groundPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
- 024. The monk escapes through the wall of the churchPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
- 032. The other monks preventing him for eatingPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- 045. The other monks find that only the skullcap was left behindPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
- Source date
- 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 10.10
- Folio
- 115r
- Recorded provenance
- Dimma Qeddus Giyorgis Church, Gojjam
- 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 1665 (4 episode rows)