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Herewith links to last year's "Saints of the day" for 24. December, the Vigil of the Nativity. That was in two parts,viz.
pt. 1: Jesus' ancestors:
http://tinyurl.com/7l349ry
pt. 2: Delphina of Bordeaux; Tarsilla; Irmina of Trier; Bl. Erkenbert):
http://tinyurl.com/798we4u
Further to Adam and Eve:
a) corrections / additions to matter from last year:
The link given last year for the tenth- or eleventh-century ivory panels in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art no longer functions. Expandable views of the panels are here:
http://tinyurl.com/79al4z3
and here:
http://tinyurl.com/7lp43eu
The eleventh-century depictions of Adam and Eve in Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 6 (1), fol. 6r:
http://tinyurl.com/yjok7y2
should have been identified as being in the Bible of Sant Pere de Roda.
Further views of Adam and Eve as depicted in mosaic in the earlier thirteenth-century Genesis cupola of the basilica di San Marco in Venice will be found on this page from www.orthodoxy-icons.com:
http://tinyurl.com/6ogy4h4
b) a few more visuals:
Adam and Eve after the Fall as depicted in a larger miniature in the earlier sixth-century Vienna Genesis (Vienna, ÖNB, cod. theol. gr. 31):
http://idr.seieditrice.com/files/2009/09/immagine10918.jpg
Adam and Eve as depicted in the remnant of the later twelfth-century mosaic floor in the presbytery of the cathedral in Trani (BT) in Apulia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3019248888/
The Fall as portrayed in the earlier thirteenth-century sculptures (betw. ca. 1200 and ca. 1230) on the apse of the church at Schöngrabern (Bezirk Hollabrunn) in Niederösterreich:
http://tinyurl.com/c97s996
Adam and Eve as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century Lilienfeld Bible (Lilienfeld [Niederösterreich], Stiftsbibliothek, cod. 188):
http://idr.seieditrice.com/files/2009/09/immagine10917.jpg
Adam and Eve and the serpent as depicted in a later thirteenth-century window (ca. 1280) in the Stadtkirche St. Dionys at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg:
http://tinyurl.com/3vnte3g
Adam and Eve scenes as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century Anjou Bible (ca. 1340; Leuven / Louvain, Maurits Sabbe Bibliotheek, K. U. Leuven, ms. 1):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/6410884775/sizes/o/
Adam as depicted in a later fourteenth-century fresco (1378) by Theophanes the Greek in the church of the Transfiguration in Ilin Street in Veliky Novgorod:
http://tinyurl.com/7wo6yse
Best wishes to all in this holiday season,
John Dillon
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