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Some glass images of St Joseph:
 
 
Chartres, Cathédrale Notre Dame, Bay 50,  Flight into Egypt,  c.1145-55: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2199733467 
Lincoln Cathedral,  North Transept Rose window, D2, Joseph chosen as 
husband of BVM,  c.1230: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2264371881 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2480770379 
York Minster,  Chapter House, CHnII, 6b, Flight into Egypt,  c.1290: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5033237368 
York Minster, wI,  8c-9c - 8d-9d, Nativity over two lights, c1340: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4708362931 
York, St  Michael-le-Belfrey, east window, 2b, Nativity, 14thC.: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4569178540 
Newark, St  Mary Magdelene, east window, 2c, on right with Mary in Christ 
among the Doctors,  14thC.: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2878568407 
Newark, St  Mary Magdelene, sII, 4e, Joseph chosen as husband of BVM, 
15thC.: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2876230113 
East 
Harling, St Peter  & St Paul, east window, 3b, with Mary at Presentation, 
15thC.: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2480753195 
Harling, St Peter  & St  Paul, east window, 4c, in Nativity  scene: 
Winchester  Cathedral, nIX, C1, with Mary from Presentation, early 16thC.: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4425797624 
Nowton, Suffolk, roundel of Holy Kindred, Joseph at back on left: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4216845876 
Gordon  Plumb 



 
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Joseph's cult is said to have been established in Eastern  Christianity in 
late antiquity.  In the originally tenth-century Synaxary  of Constantinople 
his is the first commemoration under 26. December.   Other medieval 
synaxaries enter him under 25. December.  Joseph's feast  certainly existed in the 
West in the eighth century, when it begins to appear  in local 
martyrologies, e.g. that of Tallaght (ca. 790).  The first  Western record of a church 
dedicated to Joseph comes from Bologna in  1129.  Joseph's earliest known 
Office comes from Liège in the thirteenth  century.  His feast on this day was 
adopted by some orders in the  fourteenth century; it entered the Roman 
Calendar in the later fifteenth  century under Sixtus IV.


Some medieval images of Joseph, spouse of  the BVM (a.k.a. Joseph the 
Carpenter, Joseph of Nazareth, Joseph the Foster  Father of Jesus):

a) as depicted (just right of center, next to the  BVM's throne; Adoration 
of the Magi) in one of the late sixth- or  seventh-century full-page 
miniatures bound into a late tenth-century gospels  in Armenian (ca. 989; Yerevan, 
Matenadaran, ms. 2374 [the Etchmiadzin  Gospel]):
http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/arts_of_armenia/highres/061.jpg

b)  as depicted (detail of a Nativity scene) in an early eighth-century 
mosaic  (ca. 705) from the Oratory of John VII in St. Peter's in Rome and now 
in the  State Pushkin Museum of Visual Art, Moscow (photograph courtesy of 
Genevra  Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/PushkinMosaic2.jpg

c)  as portrayed in relief (at far right; Adoration of the Magi) on the 
earlier  eighth-century Altar of Duke Ratchis (betw. 737 and 744) in the Museo  
Cristiano del Duomo in Cividale: 
http://tinyurl.com/7sxdp2d 

d) as  depicted (two images) in an eleventh-century troper from Autun 
(Paris, BnF,  ms. Arsenal, 1169):
1) Nativity scene (fol. 3v; upper register at  right):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f12.item.zoom#
2)  The Presentation in the Temple (fol. 11v; second from  right):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f28.item.zoom

e)  as depicted (bottom register; third from left; Nativity scene) in the 
earlier  eleventh-century mosaics (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) in the 
katholikon of  the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in  Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/zx4soap

f) as depicted (at left; Nativity  scene) in the late tenth- or early 
eleventh-century so-called Menologion of  Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. 
Vat. graec. 1613, p.  271):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_053.jpg

g)  as depicted (his Second Dream) in an eleventh-century fresco in Ateni 
Sioni  Church, Ateni (Shida Kartli province),  Georgia:
http://tinyurl.com/2devtm

h) as portrayed in relief (at  right in panel at upper right; Nativity 
scene) on the later eleventh-century  wooden doors (ca. 1060) in Köln's Basilika 
St. Maria im  Kapitol:
http://tinyurl.com/gldu59f

i) as depicted (detail of a  Nativity scene) in the late eleventh-century 
mosaics in the katholikon of the  Daphni monastery in Chaidari (Attika 
regional  authority):
http://tinyurl.com/ylqy4z4

j) as portrayed in high  relief (at left; the Flight into Egypt) on an 
earlier twelfth-century capital  (betw. 1125 and 1130) in the basilique 
Saint-Andoche in Saulieu (Côte  d'Or):
http://art-roman.net/saulieu/saulieu21x.jpg

k) as portrayed  in high relief (at right; the Flight into Egypt) on an 
earlier to  mid-twelfth-century capital (betw. 1125 and 1145) in the basilique 
cathédrale  Saint-Lazare in Autun:
http://art-roman.net/autun/autun46x.jpg

l) as  portrayed in relief (at far right; detail of an Adoration of the 
Magi) on the  earlier twelfth-century Transfiguration tympanum (ca. 1130-1135) 
in the église  Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Croix in La Charité-sur-Loire  (Nièvre):
http://www.art-roman.net/charite/charite17x.jpg

m) as  portrayed in relief in the probably mid-twelfth-century sculptures 
of the west  portal of the basilica abbaziale di San Silvestro I papa in 
Nonantola:
1)  an angel (at left) appears to him (at right) in one of his  dreams:
http://tinyurl.com/hc4ju3o
2) second from left, at the  Presentation in the Temple:
http://tinyurl.com/hbw9rrz

n) as  depicted (at lower left; Nativity scene) in the mid-twelfth-century 
mosaics of  the chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della 
Martorana) in  Palermo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/7703479854  
http://www.dressspace.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/115.jpg  

o) as depicted in three panels of the mid-twelfth-century Infancy of  
Christ window (bay 50; ca. 1145-1155) in the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame  in 
Chartres (photographs courtesy of Gordon Plumb):
1) his Second  Dream:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2199827913/
2) the  Flight into  Egypt:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2199733467
3) the  Return from  Egypt:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4147062191

p) as  depicted three times in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century 
mosaics in  the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
1) on the south wall of the sanctuary  (his Second Dream; the Flight into  
Egypt):
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/4palatin/08sanctu.jpg
Detail  view (Flight into  Egypt):
http://www.italiamedievale.org/portale/wp-content/uploads/121.jpg
2)  at right on the south arch of the crossing (part of the Presentation in 
the  Temple):
http://tinyurl.com/gucb7lc  
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3704

q)  as depicted (Nativity scene) 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. 10v sc.  2A):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A010v_min_a2

r)  as portrayed in relief (at far right in the panel at left; Adoration of 
the  Magi) in the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century sculptures of 
the  facade on the cattedrale di San Donnino in  Fidenza:
http://tinyurl.com/ycxhb9p
Detail view (after  cleaning):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/3124704823/

s)  as depicted (his Second Dream) by Toros Roslin in the later 
thirteenth-century  Walters T'oros Roslin Gospels (a.k.a. Sebastia Gospels of 1262) 
from Armenian  Cilicia (1262; Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, ms. W.539, fol.  
17r):
http://tinyurl.com/zvdwysz
http://tinyurl.com/hcss2g6

t) as  depicted (at right; the Marriage of Mary and Joseph) in a panel of 
the late  thirteenth-century Life of Mary and Infancy of Jesus window (bay 6, 
panel 15)  in the église Saint-Sulpice in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières  
(Essonne):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/st%20sulpice%20le%20faviere/EwSa-15.htm

u)  as depicted (Nativity scene) in a late thirteenth-century copy of 
French  origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 
 3027, fol.  6v):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000979A.jpg

v)  as depicted (Nativity scene) in the late thirteenth-century Livre 
d'images de  Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition 
française  16251, fol. 21r):
http://tinyurl.com/7bksgvy

w) depicted (the Flight  into Egypt) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy 
of Guiard des Moulins'  _Bible historiale_ (betw. 1301 and 1326; Paris, BnF, 
ms. Français 152, fol.  379r):
http://tinyurl.com/6q5qa9x

x) as depicted in two images by  Giotto di Bondone in his early 
fourteenth-century frescoes (1303-1305) in the  Cappella dei Scrovegni (a.k.a. Arena 
Chapel) in Padua:
1) the Marriage of  Mary and  Joseph:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/padova/2virgin/mary05.jpg
Detail  view:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/padova/2virgin/mary051.jpg
2)  Nativity  scene:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/padova/3christ/chris01.jpg

y)  as depicted twice (his Second Dream; the Flight into Egypt) by Duccio 
di  Buoninsegna in a front predella panel, from his dismembered early  
fourteenth-century Maestà altarpiece (betw. 1308 and 1311), in the Museo  
dell'Opera del Duomo in  Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/predel_f/pre_f_6.jpg

z)  as depicted in three images in the earlier fourteenth-century mosaics 
(betw.  1315 and 1321) in the exonarthex of the Chora Church (Kariye Camii) 
in  Istanbul:
1) registration for  taxation:
http://tinyurl.com/zpsa6mw
Detail  view:
http://tinyurl.com/z8wylp4
2) Nativity scene,  detail:
http://tinyurl.com/gptc8kv
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/moni_xoras/34.jpg
3)  the Return from Egypt,  detail:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/moni_xoras/43.jpg

aa)  as depicted twice in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial 
menologion from  Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. 
th. f. 1,  fols. 2r, 2v):
1) at lower right (Nativity scene,  detail):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/2r.jpg
2) at far  left (the Presentation in the  Temple):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/2v.jpg

bb)  as depicted (Nativity scene, detail) in the earlier fourteenth-century 
 frescoes (1330s) in the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć
 at  Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of 
Kosovo  or Serbia's province of Kosovo and  Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/y8b7rdn

cc) as depicted (at right;  Nativity scene) by Lorenzo Monaco in a predella 
panel of his earlier  fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Coronation of the 
Virgin (1413 or 1414) in  the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence: 
http://tinyurl.com/jo7bjwl  

dd) as depicted (second from right; Nativity scene) by Beato Angelico  in a 
mid-fifteenth-century fresco (ca. 1440-1441) in one of the cells in the  
convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco, Florence:  
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/angelico/09/cells/05_nativ.jpg 

ee) as  depicted (the Marriage of Mary and Joseph) in a later 
fifteenth-century copy  of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its 
French-language version  by Jean de Vignay (1463; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol.  
195v):
http://tinyurl.com/7f7hpet

Best,
John  Dillon

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