About this work
The two brothers sitting and writing next to each other
Original catalogue wording
1. The two brothers sitting and writing next to each other | 3. The demons seizing the scribe | 4. St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demons | 5. The scribe sitting again and resuming his writing
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The two brothers sitting and writing next to each otherPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
The two brothers are scribes
- 023. The demons seizing the scribePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
One of the two scribes whose soul the angels of darkness took
- 034. St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demonsPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady Mary seized the soul of the scribe and she saved him from the hands of the demons; The soul of the scribe of the Miracle
- 045. The scribe sitting again and resuming his writingPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How our Lady returned the two scribes to their former place and how they began to write
- 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
- 47r
- 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 1691 (4 episode rows)