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Some medieval portrayals of St. Medard:
St. Medard as depicted in an eleventh-century lectionary from the abbey of St. Martial in Limoges (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 5301, fol. 82r):
http://tinyurl.com/ozn7j6t
Sts. Medard and Gildard as depicted in the late thirteenth-century Breviary of Philip the Fair (ca. 1290-1295; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 1023, fol. 331v):
http://tinyurl.com/nn8wtfs
St. Medard enthroned as portrayed in a fourteenth-century statue in the early sixteenth-century église Saint-Médard at Blénod-lès-Toul (Meurthe-et-Moselle):
http://i16.servimg.com/u/f16/09/04/27/32/st_med12.jpg
St. Medard as depicted in an early fifteenth-century copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay followed by the _Festes nouvelles_ attributed to Jean Golein (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 242, fol. 301v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426005j/f619.image.r=.langEN
Sts. Medard and Gildard as depicted in an early fifteenth-century Breviary for the Use of Paris (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, BM, ms. 2, fol. 185v.):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_054028-p.jpg
St. Medard as depicted in an early fifteenth-century lectionary for the Office (before 1426) from the abbey of St. Magloire in Paris (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 399, fol. 71r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht17/IRHT_08187-p.jpg
St. Medard with queen St. Radegund as she removes her royal garb after having sought sanctuary in the church at Noyon as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1455) of part of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 310, fol. 222v):
http://tinyurl.com/2d3qwea
St. Medard giving some of his clothing to a blind beggar as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1470) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay followed by the _Festes nouvelles_ attributed to Jean Golein (Mâcon, Médiathèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 160r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_095358-p.jpg
St. Medard as portrayed in an early sixteenth-century statue over the west portal of the église Saint-Médard at Blénod-lès-Toul (Meurthe-et-Moselle):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/2448845433_ccb57e755b_b.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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