Description
Jesus gestures toward the 12-year-old girl he has awakened from the dead, in a lesser-known miracle included in Father Jerome’s text. The elder of a synagogue, the girl’s father, named Jairus, had shown great faith in Jesus and had begged him to help his daughter; Jairus may be the figure dressed as a Jesuit in a dark cloak and tall matching cap behind Jesus. Jesus admonished the crowd to tell no one about the miracle, but people turn and gesture to one another, unable to keep from spreading the news.
Provenance
An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s (before 1930s–2005); (Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (2005); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2005–)
Jesus Raises Jairus’s Daughter from the Dead (folio 82 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
1602–4
Accession Number
2005.145.82.b
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.3 x 15.7 cm (10 3/8 x 6 3/16 in.); Image: 19.5 x 11.4 cm (7 11/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
Manuscript
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund
