About this work
St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus Christ
Original catalogue wording
6. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus Christ | 7. Two angels weighing the cannibal's good and bad deeds in a scale | 5. The demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ sitting on a throne | 1. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed | 3. The cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosy
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 016. St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus ChristPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
- 027. Two angels weighing the cannibal's good and bad deeds in a scalePosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
- 035. The demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ sitting on a thronePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- 041. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killedPosition recorded by PEMM: center
- 053. The cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosyPosition 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
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 653
- Folio
- 60r
- 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 1767 (5 episode rows)