About this work
The Jewish man hears about the golden plate
Original catalogue wording
1. The Jewish man hears about the golden plate | 2. The Jewish man hides in the church after the priests go home | 3. The Jewish man attempts to sell the platter to St Basil | 4. The Jewish man is baptized | 5. The man becomes a deacon in the church and sees the Holy Spirit in the likeness of a dove
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The Jewish man hears about the golden platePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
- 022. The Jewish man hides in the church after the priests go homePosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
- 033. The Jewish man attempts to sell the platter to St BasilPosition recorded by PEMM: center
- 044. The Jewish man is baptizedPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- 055. The man becomes a deacon in the church and sees the Holy Spirit in the likeness of a dovePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
- Source date
- Late 17th/early 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
- Shelfmark
- 53
- Folio
- 13v
- 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 1769 (5 episode rows)