‹ Catalogue sequence 135v — Annunciation: St Gabriel appears to Mary sewing or spinning — Or 520, f. 135v 141v — Hildephonsus of Toledo handing over to St Mary the finished book of the Taʾammǝra Māryām, which she blesses and returns to him — Or 520, f. 141v 142r — St Mary presenting to Hildephonsus of Toledo a throne and garment — Or 520, f. 142r 142v — Hildephonsus of Toledo sits upon the throne, wears the garment given to him by Mary, and reads the Miracles of Mary — Or 520, f. 142v 145r — The worker standing next to St Mary, who performs a blessing gesture, while sitting on a throne and holding her son — Or 520, f. 145r 148v — The Jewish priest lying on the ground after his fall in the foreground of the miniature — Or 520, f. 148v 149r — The Jewish priest standing before St Mary, who is sitting on the throne and performs a gesture of blessing — Or 520, f. 149r 152r — Dǝmyānos writing the name of St Mary in a manuscript — Or 520, f. 152r 155r — The bishop ʾAbbās standing and distributing communion surrounded by the faithful, among whom is the woman who kisses his hand — Or 520, f. 155r 155v — The bishop and the faithful standing in front of the icon of the Virgin and Child, which has healed his hand — Or 520, f. 155v 159r — The monk Yǝsḥaq kneeling in prayer; The icon of St Mary taking Yǝsḥaq by the hand and raising him — Or 520, f. 159r 162r — St Mary standing next to Māryām of Dafrā — Or 520, f. 162r 166r — The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene — Or 520, f. 166r 168v — The sick pilgrim lying in bed; The sick pilgrim standing before the places to which Mary carries him: the Jordan — Or 520, f. 168v 169r — The sick pilgrim standing before the places to which Mary carries him: Jerualem — Or 520, f. 169r 173r — The youth Zakāryās fastening a crown of roses to an icon of St Mary — BOr (BL) 520, fol. 173r — source only 173v — Zakāryās praying the greeting of the angel before the icon of Mary; The thieves hiding behind trees; Zakāryās prosterning himself — Or 520, f. 173v 174r — Zakāryās standing before St Mary, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by angels, and collects roses out of his mouth; The thieves being consecrated as monks — Or 520, f. 174r 177r — The two thieves attempting to eat the bread they stole from Yolyānā and Barbārā; The two thieves standing before an icon of St Mary — Or 520, f. 177r 180v — The three Arabs swimming in the water; One man being eaten by a crocodile; The two others standing on a rock above the water — Or 520, f. 180v 181r — One man riding a camel to the monastery; The other man bringing his sheep's wool to the monastery; The camel brought by the man — Or 520, f. 181r 184r — St Mary surrounded by the sleeping monks of the monastery, which is depicted in the background — Or 520, f. 184r 184v — The monastery with its monks that has been moved to the shore of the sea — Or 520, f. 184v 188r — The priest Yoḥannǝs is depicted standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child — Or 520, f. 188r 191r — The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemies; The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship — Or 520, f. 191r 191v — The rich man standing next to a small statue of himself in front of the icon of the Virgin and Child — Or 520, f. 191v 194v — The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child — Or 520, f. 194v 195r — The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes — Or 520, f. 195r 198v — The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting — Or 520, f. 198v 199r — The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmith; The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by persons — Or 520, f. 199r 201v — The two brothers sitting and writing next to each other — Or 520, f. 201v 202r — St Mary pulling down the scribe from amongs the demons — Or 520, f. 202r 205r — Giyorgis lying in prison bound at his hands and feet, with a dove appearing to him — Or 520, f. 205r 208v — St Mary sitting on a throne surrounded by two angels with the custodian of the church sitting before her — Or 520, f. 208v 212v — The two brothers and the Muslim customer gathered around a piece of cloth — Or 520, f. 212v 213r — Nazib lying in prison bound at his hands and feet; Tag the priest praying in front of the icon of St. Mary — Or 520, f. 213r 213v — St George of Lydda riding on a horse, brandishing a weapon, and appearing to the judge; The judge handing to Nazib his paper of release — Or 520, f. 213v 216v — The bishop sitting on a throne before the people, who are gathered in a church, and amongst whom is the man with the petrified foot — Or 520, f. 216v 217r — The man with the petrified foot standing and praying before an icon of the Virgin and Child while his foot is healed — Or 520, f. 217r 217v — The man showing his healed foot to the bishop with the people standing in the background — Or 520, f. 217v 219v — The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy — Or 520, f. 219v 220r — The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child; The bishop showing himself healed to the patriarch — Or 520, f. 220r 220v — The healed bishop distributing the Eucharist — Or 520, f. 220v 223v — Two men carrying the woman with a broken foot on a stretcher — Or 520, f. 223v 224r — The custodian of the church and the healed woman standing before the icon of St Mary, who is extending her hand — Or 520, f. 224r 230r — Sofyā lying on top of a building before the icon of the Virgin and Child while an angel carries away the child from her womb — Or 520, f. 230r 230v — The bishop sitting on a throne in front of a group of women accusing Sofyā — Or 520, f. 230v 232v — Bārok sitting in his house surrounded by those for whom he makes a feast — Or 520, f. 232v 233r — Bārok surrounded by his attackers who are holding various weapons — Or 520, f. 233r 236v — ʾAnǝsṭāsyos lying before St Mary, who together with the Child is extending her hand towards him — Or 520, f. 236v 237r — ʾAnǝsṭāsyos standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child — Or 520, f. 237r 242v — The monk surrounded by the other monks, who are attacking him; The monk escapes through the wall of the church — Or 520, f. 242v 243r — The monk standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child with his skull-cap fallen to the ground — BOr (BL) 520, fol. 243r — source only 248r — The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed — Or 520, f. 248r 248v — The cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosy; The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmer — Or 520, f. 248v 249r — St Mary, who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before an angel holding the scale — Or 520, f. 249r 253r — The widow standing praying before the icon of St Mary — Or 520, f. 253r 253v — St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release him — Or 520, f. 253v 257r — The woman with her child surrounded by the marvelling people; The woman holding her new-born child protected by St Mary from the water — Or 520, f. 257r 260r — The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dog; St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoe — Or 520, f. 260r 266r — Dormition: Mary receives the Covenant of Mercy from Jesus — Or 520, f. 266r ›
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The bishop ʾAbbās standing and distributing communion surrounded by the faithful, among whom is the woman who kisses his hand — Or 520, f. 155r Open catalogue record
Holding institution British Library
Shelfmark 520
Folio 155r
Catalogue date 17th
Catalogue source Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
Source record paintings.csv, Painting ID 1403 (2 episode rows) Image evidence
Caption The bishop ʾAbbās standing and distributing communion surrounded by the faithful, among whom is the woman who kisses his hand; The bishop sitting and cutting off his hand
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