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On 11/27/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Barlaam and Josaphat (fictional)... Barlaam and Josaphat were entered into the RM in the 16th century.
That last sentence reprises this from Phyllis Jestice in 2003 (at <http://tinyurl.com/6vjl5wu>): "B. & J. were added to the Roman Martyrology in the 16th century". One should now add that Barlaam and Josaphat were removed from the Roman Martyrology in its revision of 2001.
Some medieval depictions of Barlaam and Josaphat (or Joasaph, as he's known in Greek and other languages):
Barlaam and Joasaph as depicted, on adjoining faces of the same pilaster, in the originally early thirteenth-century frescoes (1208-1209; repainted in 1569) in the church of the Presentation of the Theotokos in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
Barlaam:
http://tinyurl.com/8y5v72q
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6ph8ese
Joasaph:
http://tinyurl.com/895wzy7
Joasaph and Barlaam as depicted in various illuminations (thumbnails only, alas!) in a later thirteenth-century manuscript, now in the Antiochian Orthodox monastery at Balamand in Lebanon, of an Arabic-language version of their legend (Balamand ms. 147 (6) ):
http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/manuscripts/ManBarl.gif
http://tinyurl.com/7uzuzer
http://tinyurl.com/6szvzrg (two views here: the Man in the Tree and Barlaam baptizing Joasaph)
Joasaph and Barlaam as depicted, in adjoining portraits, in somewhat degraded earlier fourteenth century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the narthex of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending one one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
Joasaph:
http://tinyurl.com/dxs4qnz
Barlaam:
http://tinyurl.com/cwxj3ew
Barlaam and Josaphat as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century copy (ca. 1320 - ca. 1330) of a French-language version of their legend (in Paris, BnF, ms. Français 187; fol. 72r):
http://tinyurl.com/82hpwcg
Barlaam and Josaphat as depicted in three scenes in a later fourteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 51, fols. 173v, 175r, 195r):
http://tinyurl.com/8y79po6
http://tinyurl.com/9jy856
http://tinyurl.com/6sdpg6z
Barlaam and Joasaph (center and right; at left, St. Athanasius the Athonite) as depicted one one side of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Novgorod School double icon now in the Museum of History and Architecture in Novgorod:
http://tinyurl.com/6nte3qb
> James the Persian/-the Hewn-Apart/-the Sawn Asunder/-the Sliced/-the Mangled/ Jakobus Intercisus/Jacob of Beth Lapat...
> James as depicted in a fresco (c1260) on an arch in the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć...
A better view of that portrait (betw. 1260 and 1263):
http://tinyurl.com/68op763
> James as depicted in a later thirteenth- or earlier fourteenth-century Palaeologan style fresco (location not given):
> http://www.santiebeati.it/immagini/Original/91626/91626.JPG
This portrait is one of the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Two further views of it:
http://tinyurl.com/8y9q9sv
http://tinyurl.com/3ombmw9
A bonus image: James (at right; at left, St. Alexi[u]s) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the nave of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/3zcvr3h
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3bozwj4
> James as depicted by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (Theophanes the Cretan) in a fresco (1527) in the katholikon of the monastery of St. Nicholas Anapafsas in the Meteora district of Greece's Trikala prefecture: http://tinyurl.com/2fl49a6 , http://tinyurl.com/24f976q
>
Better views of that portrait (in the first, the saint at right is Christopher [of Lycia]):
http://tinyurl.com/6jeu9bm
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6feaqpf
Best,
John Dillon
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