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Scenes from the Life of Saint George

Seattle Art Museum · 45.71

Sensul & parchment artSciacca, “Exploring Sensuls” (The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 76)

The source records this manuscript art; no substitute image is shown.

Description written for this catalogue from Christine Sciacca's Figure 13 caption and accompanying analysis, and claims nothing beyond them.

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Twenty-eight captioned leaves form a continuous Life of Saint George. The record preserves the source's dating disagreement instead of silently choosing one date.

Description written for this catalogue from Christine Sciacca's Figure 13 caption and accompanying analysis, and claims nothing beyond them.

Source date
Catalogue caption: ca. 13th century; article analysis: likely late 17th century
Date evidence
Date wording taken from the article caption. Where the article's analysis disagrees with the caption, both readings are kept and labelled here rather than one being chosen.
Holding institution
Seattle Art Museum
Shelfmark
45.71
Recorded provenance
Ethiopia
Place evidence
Place wording transcribed from the peer-reviewed article caption; it is not expanded into a province.
Catalogue source
Sciacca, “Exploring Sensuls” (The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 76)
Source record
Christine Sciacca, “Exploring Sensuls,” Figure 13