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Document identity
localId
88502
label
Above: How he put Bahran in a body of water, and how a shepherd found the child and brought him from the body of water;Below: How the shepherd delivered the child, and the nobleman gave a sealed letter to Bahran
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
88502
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Above: How he put Bahran in a body of water, and how a shepherd found the child and brought him from the body of water;Below: How the shepherd delivered the child, and the nobleman gave a sealed letter to Bahran
provenance
Gäbrä and Giyorgis Sellase [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Kidanä and Sählä Maryam [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Knopfelmacher Collection, New York, No. 2 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Wright Gallery, New York, 1995-1996; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.
date
late 17th century (early Gondarine)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
25.4
height
23
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 x W: 9 1/16 in. (25.4 x 23 cm)
Source extras
cul
Christian Highland Ethiopian
med
ink and pigments on medium weight/quality parchment with yellowed edges
creator_ids
6264
collection_ids
MSS
ETH
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
8e127bbfbe23c67d