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A few further images (some unfortunately rather reduced):
Scenes of the _conversio Pauli_ as depicted in the earlier twelfth-century Bible des comtes de Champagne (ca. 1145; Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2391, fols.214v, 217v, 224v):
a) Ananias cures Saul's blindness:
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht18/IRHT_109923-p.jpg
b) Ananias baptizes the converted Paul:
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109924-p.jpg
c) Paul escapes from Damascus in a basket:
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_109930-p.jpg
Paul preaching and Paul escaping from Damascus in a basket as depicted in a mid-twelfth-century glossed manuscript of the Epistles (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D.1.13, fol. 1r):
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/miniatur/1101-150/1english/14englis.jpg
Scenes of the _conversio Pauli_ as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
a) Saul is blinded and led into Damascus; Ananias baptizes the converted Paul
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/77951437.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heffelumpen9/6238777253/lightbox/
b) Paul preaches in Damascus and escapes from that city in a basket:
http://www.30giorni.it/upload/articoli_immagini_interne/1216132960182.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nican45/5817464227/
http://tinyurl.com/kx2gxt3
http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/visits/sicily/palatina/paul.shtml
Paul escaping from Damascus in a basket as depicted on a later twelfth-century enamel plaque (ca. 1180-1185) probably from a reliquary casket and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6288814157/
The _conversio Pauli_ as depicted in the later twelfth-century mosaics of the basilica cattedrale Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale:
a) Saul sent to Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/aqy7doq
b) The blinding of Saul:
http://tinyurl.com/bfted4l
c) The now blind Saul is led into Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/azqutm4
d) Ananias meets Saul:
http://tinyurl.com/bcsozew
e) Ananias baptizes the converted Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/a9vykpb
f) Paul preaches in Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/bcwx52d
g) Paul escapes Damascus in a basket:
http://tinyurl.com/atxac77
http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/visits/sicily/monreale/images/809paul.jpg
Ananias baptizing Paul and Paul preaching in Damascus as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/274wveu
http://tinyurl.com/34khrd4
Ananias baptizing Paul as depicted in a panel of the late fourteenth- or very early fifteenth-century Retable of St. Paul in the Museo della cattedrale di San Paolo, Mdina, Malta:
http://www.joannalace.org.uk/pics/fig5.png
The blinding of Saul as depicted by Bl. John of Fiesole (a.k.a. Beato Angelico) as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century missal (ca. 1430; Florence, Museo nazionale di San Marco, Missal 558, fol. 21r):
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/angelico/14/2illumin.jpg
Scenes of the _conversio Pauli_ (the blinding of Saul; the baptism of the converted Paul; Paul preaching in Damascus) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century (1463) copy of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 242r):
http://tinyurl.com/ybr7orx
Best,
John Dillon
On 01/25/15, Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
> Today, 25th January, is the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul:
>
> A few glass images:
>
> Metz, Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Bay 14:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4309874158
> and subsequently being let down in basket from walls of Damascus:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4308859271
>
> North Moreton, All Saints, Oxfordshire, sII, 1a:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2954546359
>
> York Minster, CHsIII, 4a, being let down from walls:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5022952837
> same window, falls from horse on Damascus Road:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5023654577
> Same window, Baptised by Ananias:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5022949073
> Same window:Ananias visits Saul:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5022945345
>
> Gordon Plumb
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