Miracle of Mary: The cannibal of Qǝmǝr
Dorothea Reule
General description
A miniature illustrating Miracle of Mary: The Story of the Cannibal of Qǝmr typically with as a sequence of six episodes/events, showing: first, the cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed; second, the peasant and other inhabitants fleeing from the cannibal, with several houses depicted in the background; third, the cannibal offering water to a beggar covered by sores of leprosy; fourth, the demons holding the cannibal's soul among the flames of hell before Jesus Christ↗ sitting on a throne; fifth, St Mary↗ , who holds the soul of the cannibal, standing before Jesus Christ↗ and sixth; two angels weighing the cannibal's good and bad deeds in a scale.
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Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Annequin, G. 1972. ‘L’illustration des Ta’amra Maryam de 1630 à 1730. Quelques remarques sur le premier style de Gondar’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 9 (1972), 193–219.
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Alessandro Bausi, Dorothea Reule, ʻMiracle of Mary: The cannibal of Qǝmǝrʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-05-02) https://betamasaheft.eu/authority-files/AT1136MMCannibal [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
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- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Created entity on 2.5.2019