About this work
One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from him
Original catalogue wording
2. One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from him | 1. The two brothers sitting and writing next to each other | 5. The scribe sitting again and resuming his writing | 4. St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demons
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 012. One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from himPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How he asked him
- 021. The two brothers sitting and writing next to each otherPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
One of the two scribes whose soul the angels of darkness took; The 2 brothers, scribes
- 035. The scribe sitting again and resuming his writingPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How our Lady returned that scribe to his former place and how they wrote
- 044. St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demonsPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady brought down the soul of the scribe, seizing him with her hand out of the hand of the demons
- 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
- 105v
- 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 1689 (4 episode rows)