About this work
The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmer
Original catalogue wording
4. The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmer | 3. The cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosy | 8. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before an angel holding the scale | 1. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 014. The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmerPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
- 023. The cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosyPosition recorded by PEMM: top-center
- 038. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before an angel holding the scalePosition recorded by PEMM: right
- 041. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killedPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- Source date
- First half of 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 646
- Folio
- 63v
- 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 1713 (4 episode rows)