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
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
The 2 brothers, scribes
- 022. One of the brothers sitting and facing the man who commissions a copy of the Taʾāmmǝra Māryām from himPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
The man who asked him to write
- 033. The demons seizing the scribePosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
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: center-right
How our Lady Mary brought down the soul of the scribe, seizing him with her hand and taking him from the hands of the demons; The soul of the scribe
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 100r
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- 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 1815 (4 episode rows)