Late 17th century AD. A parchment page with tempera illustrations of Miracles of Mary with explanatory text: (top left) 'This is Abba Yeshag, abbot of Däbrä Qälmon, who chastised Abba Salusi when he saw him eating at the wrong time' and 'these are the monks who seized Salusi'; 'This is how the same Salusi took peas in his hand'; (top right) 'How the same Salusi prayed before the image of Our lady Mary that she might save him from the monks'; 'How two monks seized Salusi by the arms'; probably from the reign of King Fasilädäs. See Berzock, Kathleen B., The Miracles of Mary: A Seventeenth Century Manuscript, Chicago, 2000; Mercier, Jacques et al., L'Arche Ethiopienne: Art Chrétien d'Ethiopie, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2000, pp.129-30.12.8 grams, 30.5 x 26.5cm (12 x 10 1/2"). Ex central London gallery since 2000; previously in a Southern France private collection; accompanied by a copy of a collector's catalogue and information page. This miniature is from one of a number of richly illuminated manuscripts of the 'Miracles of Mary' produced in the mid 17th century AD, during the reign of King Fasilädäs. A manuscript probably painted in the same workshop is in the Art Institute of Chicago, inv.no.2002.4. [No Reserve]