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A few early texts concerning St. Agnes of Rome and then some medieval images of her, supplementing those already proffered by Gordon:
Texts:
α) Pope St. Damasus' verse epitaph for A. (_Epigrammata Damasiana_, ed. Ferrua, no. 37), inscribed in Filocalian letters:
http://www.santagnese.org/fotoHR/carme_11-01-04.jpg
β) The Ambrosian hymn _Agnes beatae virginis_ (starts a little more than halfway down the page):
http://tinyurl.com/ofxqdyn
γ) Prudentius, _Peristephanon_, 14 (the closing piece in this late fourth- or very early fifth-century collection of triumphal poems celebrating Christian martyrs):
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/prudentius/prud14.shtml
Images:
a) The very young Agnes as portrayed on in a fourth-century _pluteus_ from the altar erected by pope Liberius (352-366) at her tomb and now, like the Damasan inscription shown above, embedded in a wall alongside the entrance stairway at Rome's basilica di Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura:
http://www.santagnese.org/img/pluteo_liberio.gif
b) Agnes as portrayed in a fourth-century roundel on a tomb in the cemetery of Pamphilus on the Via Salaria:
http://www.geometriefluide.com/foto/PIC1834O.jpg
c) Agnes as depicted in the earlier to mid-sixth-century mosaics of the presbytery arch (carefully restored, 1890-1900) in the Basilica Eufrasiana at Poreč:
http://nickerson.icomos.org/euf/u/uf-.jpg
d) Agnes as depicted (at center, betw. popes Honorius I and Symmachus) in the earlier seventh-century apse mosaic of Rome's basilica di Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prof_richard/8008288332/
Detail view (Agnes):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prof_richard/8008287787/
e) Agnes (at left, followed by St. Pudentiana) as depicted in a ninth-century mosaic in the cappella di San Zenone in Rome's basilica di Santa Prassede:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4644820346_c1ee45024c_z.jpg
f) Agnes' martyrdom as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century homiliary now at Cambrai (Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 528, fol. 132v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht11/IRHT_161396-p.jpg
g) Agnes as depicted in a later thirteenth-century Cistercian psalter (ca. 1260; Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 54, fol. 13r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht5/IRHT_083231-p.jpg
h) Agnes (at left; at right, St. Barbara) as depicted in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris: BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 96r):
http://tinyurl.com/y9wmsx6
i) Agnes' martyrdom as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 23v; image greatly expandable):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000968A.jpg
j) Agnes (bottom register, at far right) as depicted by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his early fourteenth-century Maestà (betw. 1308 and 1311) for the cathedral of Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/maest_07.jpg
k) Agnes as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century East Window (ca. 1320) in the church of the former Cistercian abbey of Heiligkreuztal near Riedlingen (Lkr. Biberach) in Baden-Württemberg:
http://tinyurl.com/nr4vzyu
Detail view:
http://www.heiligen.net/afb/01/21/01-21-0304-agnes-rome_1.jpg
l) Agnes defending herself from her suitor and his friends as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1348), from the workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston, of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 44v):
http://tinyurl.com/y96nhmg
m) Agnes' martyrdom as portrayed on the later fourteenth-century Royal Gold Cup (ca. 1370-1380) in the British Museum:
http://tinyurl.com/pdxzq3h
n) Agnes' martyrdom as depicted in a later fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1370-1380) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 15943, fol. 48r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449689s/f103.item
o) Agnes' martyrdom as depicted by Giovanni di Benedetto and workshop in a late fourteenth-century Franciscan missal of Milanese origin (ca. 1385-1390; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 757, fol. 298r):
http://tinyurl.com/n69r5t3
p) Scenes deriving from from Agnes' Passio as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 51, fol. 257r):
http://tinyurl.com/y8flqbc
q) Agnes as depicted in a hand-colored, later fifteenth-century print by the Master of the Dutuit Mount of Olives, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:
http://tinyurl.com/k58an7t
r) Agnes as portrayed in an early sixteenth-century silver gilt reliquary statue (ca. 1520-1525) in the treasury of the cathedral of Münster:
http://tinyurl.com/lyfqkf4
Best,
John Dillon
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