C. Reproductions-in, Storia della letteratura; Chojnacki, Major Themes in Ethiopian Paintings, fig. 142; L'aventure des écritures, p.98

. Guidi, Annales Yohannis I, Iyasu I et Bakaffa, p.9

. Kropp, Petite histoire de Yohannes 1, p.93

A. Heldman and . Zion, Chojnacki, Ethiopian Icons Left panel: Kwera'atä Re'esu and St Georges killing the dragon; central panel: Virgin with Child; right panel, pp.98-319

A. Heldman and . Zion, Chojnacki, Ethiopian Icons, One face depicts St Gäbrä Mänfäs Qiddus and the Crucifixion, the other depicts St Georges killing the dragon, and Virgin with Child, pp.98-343

E. Chojnacki and . Icons, This large wood panel painting depicts on the left panel The Resurrection, The Flight to Egypt, and St George; on the central panel Virgin with Child and 12 apostles; on the right panel The Crucifixion, abuna Ewos §atewos and abuna Täklä Haymanot, Abbä Samu'el and St Gäbrä Mänfäs Qiddus. 13 For a complete iconographic analysis of those murals see Staude, 'Étude de la décoration picturale, Colour reproductions can be found in Leroy, Ethiopian paintings, pl. XXI, and Mercier, L'arche éthiopienne, p. 132. 14 Béguinot, La cronaca abbreviata d'Abissinia, p. 96. 15 Dating of the church's foundation is discussed in Bosc-Tiessé and Wion, 'Inventaire des peintures datées du XVIIè au début du XIXè siècles, pp.416-433

. Staude, Étude de la décoration picturale, pp.185-250

S. Armenia, . J. Mathews, and . Clark, A pigment analysis of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts'. For Persian and Syriac manuscripts see the studies of RAnalysis of some Moghul wall paintings materials, pp.122-127

. Petit, Des liants et des couleurs, p. 251ff. 29 Virgin with Child; Visitation; Adoration of the Magi; Nativity; Flight to Egypt; Crucifixion

I. Eritrea and . Iii, Indigofera arrecta, Indigofera articulata, Indigofera coerulea and Indigofera tinctoria species are used for colouring and all grow in Ethiopia Indigofera arrecta (degendeg in Amharic) grows at 1000 to 2700 m. 34 Barradas, Tractacus Tres Historico-Geographici, p. 35. 35 Leslau, Comparative Dictionary of Ge'ez, p. 398. 36 This lexical root is common to Hindustani (ni l ), Tamil (nili), Malay (nilam), Persian (nilah) Arabian (an-nil ) and Spanish (anil ), the Roman Empire Europe, this product was called 'that comes from India', which gives 'indigo'. See the exhibition catalogue Sublime Indigo, pp.141-119

E. Chojnacki and . Icons, 187: this triptych is quite similar in its composition and style to IES, p.755

. Weihs, Einige technische Details zu äthiopishen Ikonen', in Marx, 'Indigo, Smalt, Ultramarine' , p. 2. 39 As samples are destroyed by this technique, we used only half of one sample

. Weihs, Einige technische Details zu äthiopishen Ikonen', in Marx

. See and . Godet, Une méthode traditionnelle de préparation de l'encre noir en Éthiopie, pp.211-228

. Petit, Des liants et des couleurs, pp.216-234

. Ibid, 46 Pankhurst, 'The history of Ethiopia's relations with India'; Van Donzel, Foreign relations of Ethiopia. (None of the lists of objects exchanged during diplomatic embassies report pigments), p.66

I. M. Barbosa and . Dames, The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires The Book of Duarte Barbosa Then in 1618, in the report of Baldaeus, in Baldaeus, 'An exact description of the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel in the East Indies', in A. Churchill, A Collection of Voyages and Travels All are quoted by Pankhurst, 'The History of Ethiopia's relations with India, 47 According to Tomé Pires Cortesão, pp.42-48, 1918.