THE FOUR GOSPELS OF DÄBRÄ MÄcAR: COLOPHON AND NOTE OF DONATION

An Ethiopian Miniature of the Tempietto in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Its Relatives and Symbolism

“…Heldman/Devens 2009, 82. 27 Balicka-Witakowska 1997 The only analysis of the issues that arise in dating early Solomonic miniatures is found in Balicka-Witakowska 1997, 6-9, but the matter requires more detailed treatment than hitherto received.…”

Picturing the liturgy: Notes on the iconography of the Holy Women at the Tomb in fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript illumination

“…Type II is attested in a greater number of Gospel books than Type I. The examples examined here are found in: the Gospels of Däbrä Ma‛ar ( Figure 6), which have been dated to 1340-41 on the basis of a colophon and a donation note (Heldman and Devens 2005); 26 the Gospels from the monastery of Däbrä Maryam Qʷäh ̣ayn, dated, on the basis of a colophon, to 1360-61 (Balicka-Witakowska 1997: 127-8; Bausi 1994: 24-44); 27 the Gospels of The Walters Art Museum (Figure 7), which present some affinities with Däbrä Ma‛ar and can be dated approximately to the mid-fourteenth century (Mann 2001: Cat. 10); 28 a Gospel fragment in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (Figure 8), dated by Heldman (1979b: 108), on the basis of its style, to the first half of the fourteenth century; 29 the Gospels of Däbrä S ̣ärabi (Figure 9), dated by Gervers (2013: 56) to the fourteenth century; 30 the recently discovered Gospels of Däbrä Sahəl ( Figure 13); 31 a manuscript from a private collection dated by Mercier (2000b: 44-5) to the first half of the fourteenth century; 32 and the Gospels now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France ( Figure 10 Unlike Type I, in Type II the number of both the Guards and the Holy Women is fixed at two.…”