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 | 2. One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from him | 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
Two scribes, The two brothers are scribes
- 022. One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from himPosition recorded by PEMM: center-left
The man who asked him
- 033. The demons seizing the scribePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
One of the two scribes whose soul the angels of darkness took
- 044. St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demonsPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady Mary brought down the soul of the scribe, seizing him with her hand, away from the hand of the demons; Demons
- 055. 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 he began to write
- Source date
- 1632-1667
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- University of Hamburg
- Shelfmark
- DD-001
- Folio
- 56v
- Recorded provenance
- Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi
- 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 1762 (5 episode rows)