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A few medieval images of the Circumcision of Jesus:
a) As depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 287):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_047.jpg
b) As depicted by Nicholas of Verdun on an enameled plaque of his late twelfth-century altarpiece (ca. 1181) for the abbey of Klosterneuburg near Vienna:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6208/6073659927_c5f5514ecb.jpg
c) As depicted in a number of mid-thirteenth- to late fifteenth-century illuminations in manuscripts now in French collections (images expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/7n6lweh
d) As depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 23r):
http://tinyurl.com/p29l922
e) As depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 16r; image greatly expandable):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000856A.jpg
f) As depicted in the later fourteenth-century Breviary of Charles V (ca. 1364-1370; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin Latin 1052, fol. 36v):
http://tinyurl.com/nxb8msa
g) 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. 291v):
http://tinyurl.com/q64p3rb
h) As depicted (lowest register) in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Jean de Montauban (ca. 1430; Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Metropole, ms. 1834, fol. 47r):
http://tinyurl.com/l7defp7
i) As depicted by Beato Angelico in a panel painting from his mid-fifteenth-century Armadio degli Argenti (ca. 1451), now in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/angelico/11/armadio8.jpg
j) As depicted in a later fifteenth-century stained glass window (ca. 1460-1470) from Köln, now in the Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, new York:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/laurieannie/35821507
k) As depicted by the Elmelunde workshop in the late fifteenth-century paintings (ca. 1481) in Fanefjord Kirke, Fanefjord, Vordingborg Kommune, Sjælland:
http://ica.princeton.edu/images/mills/08-027.jpg
l) As portrayed by Jörg Ratgeb in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (ca. 1514-1521; restored, 2009) in the cloister of the former Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt am Main:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/6987921695/
m) As portrayed by Jean Soulas in an earlier sixteenth-century set of stone sculptures (1521-1535) on the choir screen of the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame in Chartres:
https://enthusiastical.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dsc02098.jpg
n) As portrayed by wooden sculptures on an earlier sixteenth-century altarpiece from Antwerp (ca. 1535) showing scenes from the Life of the Virgin and the Infancy of Christ, now in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin:
http://tinyurl.com/pp2czjy
Best,
John Dillon
On 01/01/15, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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> The Circumcision of Jesus (known over the years by various other names in the Catholic Church today).
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> Peace (and prayers for a beautiful year in 2015),
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> Matt H.
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