The Portrait of a Queen: A story about a manuscript and its commissione (original) (raw)

Nafisa Valieva, “The Portrait of a Queen” In: Wiebke Beyer (Ed.): Manuscript of the Month 2016.07, SFB 950: Hamburg, http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/mom/2016\_07\_mom\_e.html, 2016

Abstract

In the first decade of the 19th century, which was a period of extreme decentralisation in Ethiopia, Queen Manan of Gondar commissioned a manuscript with hagiographic texts about Saint King Lālibalā containing a unique iconographic cycle. This manuscript was produced for a newly constructed church dedicated to this saint king in her capital. But why was Queen Manan, who lived 600 years later than him, so eager to promote his cult in a new place?

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