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The opening of a Passio of St. Leodegar (similar to BHL 4853m) in an earlier twelfth-century Passionale from St Augustine's, Canterbury (London, BL, MS Arundel 91, fol. 47v):
http://tinyurl.com/8nyqlqs
A few period-pertinent images of St. Leodegar (plus one slightly tantalizing image surrogate):
a) as depicted (being blinded) in one of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (ca. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 39r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A039r_min_b1
b) as depicted (martyrdom by decollation) as in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 138r):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000904A.jpg
c) as depicted (at left; at right, Childeric II) 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. 267v):
http://tinyurl.com/yazqlvl
d) as portrayed in a fifteenth-century polychromed wooden statue in the église Saint-Léger at Cheylade (Cantal) in Auvergne:
http://tinyurl.com/p6f5vad
e) as depicted in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, fol. 360r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_054216-p.jpg
f) as depicted (at left) in a mid- or later fifteenth-century panel in the much repaired west window of Malvern Priory, Great Malvern (Worcs):
http://cvma2.cch.kcl.ac.uk/iip/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=010944.jp2&WID=1024&CVT=JPG
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Malvern/Ww-1d.htm
g) as depicted (being blinded) in a late fifteenth-century breviary according to the Use of Langres (after 1481; Chaumont, Mediathèque de Chaumont, ms. 33, fol. 450r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_097046-p.jpg
h) as portrayed in a late medieval (fifteenth-century?) polychromed statue in the église Saint-Léger at Chivres (Côte d'Or):
http://tinyurl.com/oqjmktt
i) as portrayed in an undated polychromed statue, greatly similar to item h) above, in the église Saint-Léger at Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte d'Or):
http://tinyurl.com/qhf293y
A modern adaptation of the statue at Chivres?
j) A caption for St. Leodegar (partly preserved; second from right in bottom register) but no corresponding image, re-used in a stained glass panel in the originally later fifteenth-century Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Tattershall (Lincs) (photograph by Gordon Plumb):
http://tinyurl.com/3abadd5
Best,
John Dillon
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