About this work
Bārok sitting in his house surrounded by those for whom he makes a feast
Original catalogue wording
1. Bārok sitting in his house surrounded by those for whom he makes a feast | 2. His guests sitting and drinking wine | 3. The icon of the Virgin and Child | 4. Bārok being consecrated as a monk | 7. The funeral of Bārok | 5. Bārok surrounded by his attackers who are holding various weapons
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. Bārok sitting in his house surrounded by those for whom he makes a feastPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How Barok performed the feast of our Lady Mary; How the attendant gave wine to Barok; The table and the bread; Those people feasting in the house of Barok
- 022. His guests sitting and drinking winePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
The vessels of wine from which the people drank in Barok's house
- 033. The icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
Icon of our Lady Mary
- 044. Bārok being consecrated as a monkPosition recorded by PEMM: center-right
How Barok became a monk
- 057. The funeral of BārokPosition recorded by PEMM: center-right
How those people buried Barok
- 065. Bārok surrounded by his attackers who are holding various weaponsPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
Also this one who stoned Barok with a rock; Also this one who beat him with a sword
- Source date
- 1721-1730
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7606
- Folio
- 144v
- Recorded provenance
- not given on vHMML
- 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 1783 (6 episode rows)