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Under today's date the Roman Martyrology commemorates the prophet Micah (8th cent. BC / BCE; in Latin, Micheas), the sixth of the Twelve Minor Prophets. He is the traditional author of the Book of Micah and, in modern scholarship, the probable author of its first three chapters. To differentiate him from the earlier prophet Micaiah son of Imlah he is sometimes called Micah of Moresheth after the town in which he received divine revelation. Micah's commemoration in the Roman church on this date recalls the prophecy in Micah 5:2, alluded to in Matthew 2:1-6, that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. His Byzantine-Rite commemoration on 5. January, just before the feast of the Epiphany, has the same effect. Micah's major commemoration in Byzantine-Rite churches occurs on 14. August.
Some period-pertinent images of the prophet Micah:
a) as depicted in a seventh-century Bible in Syriac (Paris, BnF, ms. Syriaque 341, fol. 179r):
http://tinyurl.com/y8s9avr
b) as depicted in a pen-and-ink drawing in the late tenth-century Seville Bible (completed, 988; Madrid, BNE, Vitr./13/1, fol. 161r):
http://tinyurl.com/j3r3496
c) as twice depicted (at upper left, being led to the cliff from which he will be tossed; at lower right, laying to rest) in the earlier eleventh-century Imperial Menologion for January in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (ms. W. 521, fol. 36r):
http://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/W521/data/W.521/sap/W521_000075_sap.jpg
d) as depicted (predicting the coming of Bethlehem) in a later eleventh-century bible from Jumièges (ca. 1076-1100; Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 8, fol. 142v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_100146-p.jpg
e) as depicted in a twelfth-century copy of a Greek-language catena commentary on the minor prophets (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 1528, fol. 221r):
http://tinyurl.com/ygk3d4p
f) as portrayed in relief by Wiligelmus on the early twelfth-century interior jambs of the central portal of the west facade of Modena's cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta e San Geminiano:
http://images.alinari.it/img/480/FCP/FCP-S-MOD000-0105.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/orfkp9d
g) as portrayed in relief (second from right; scroll with prophecy of Bethlehem) by master Nicolaus on a jamb of the earlier twelfth-century west portal (1139) of Verona's cattedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare:
http://tinyurl.com/zgvf3xz
Detail view (different angle):
https://artsymbol.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/verona-prophets-1-wp.gif
h) as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century Frankenthaler Bible (1148-ca. 1152; London, BL, Harley MS 2803, fol. 274r):
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2803_f274r
i) as depicted (second from right, second register from the top; the other two in this register are the prophets Jonah and Nahum) as depicted in a probably mid-twelfth-century mosaic in the choir of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù:
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/3cefalu/7cefalu.jpg
j) as depicted in a later twelfth-century bible (ca. 1175-1200; Bourges, Bibliothèque patrimoniale et d'étude des Quatre-Piliers, ms. 3, fol. 246v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht8/IRHT_146841-p.jpg
k) as depicted (upper left) in an originally late twelfth-century choir clerestory window (bay 205) in the choir of the basilique Saint-Remi in Reims:
http://tinyurl.com/ygz69jd
Detail view (Micah):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Reims%20St%20Remi/w205a-whole.htm
l) as portrayed in relief (above the angel over the Magi; holding a disc with a bust of the apostle Philip) by Benedetto Antelami and workshop on the tympanum of the late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century north portal (betw. 1196 and 1216) of the baptistry of Parma (for higher resolution, click on the image):
http://tinyurl.com/ppvexrn
m) as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century mosaic in the nave of Venice's basilica cattedrale patriarcale di San Marco:
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/12899182?width=845&height=1200&html=y
n) as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century bible (ca. 1220; Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 36, fol. 62v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_098009-p.jpg
o) as portrayed in relief in the earlier thirteenth-century quatrefoils (betw. 1220 and 1236) on the west front of the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame in Amiens:
1) seeing the Lord's watchtower (Mic 4:8):
http://tinyurl.com/d4kotzn
2) other scenes (Mic 4:3-4):
http://tinyurl.com/cz4gpj5
http://tinyurl.com/czu4v3y
http://tinyurl.com/coomg4t
p) as depicted in a colored pen-and-ink drawing _in margine_ in an earlier thirteenth century bible (ca. 1226-1250; Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 9, fol. 202r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht1/IRHT_036964-p.jpg
q) as depicted (at center left) in the earlier thirteenth-century north rose window (bay 121; ca. 1235) in Chartres' basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame:
http://tinyurl.com/psl2taz
r) as depicted (at left) in a mid-thirteenth-century bible from Paris (ca. 1240-1260; Den Haag, KB, cod. 132 F 21, fol. 444v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_132f21%3A444v_init
s) as depicted in a mid-thirteenth-century fresco (ca. 1246) in the capella di San Silvestro in Rome's basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati:
http://tinyurl.com/24msbhj
t) as depicted in the mid-thirteenth-century north rose window of Paris' cathédrale Notre-Dame:
http://www.therosewindow.com/pilot/Paris-N-Dame/N-rose-B4.htm
u) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century bible (Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. S 197, fol. 328r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_107842-p.jpg
v) as depicted (at left, receiving the word of the Lord) in a later thirteenth-century Bible from Paris (BnF, ms. Latin 17947, fol. 297r):
http://tinyurl.com/ygeth5w
w) as depicted (receiving from an angel the word of the Lord) in the later thirteenth-century Marquette Bible of Franco-Flemish origin (ca. 1270; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 8, vol. 2, fol. 183r):
http://tinyurl.com/2fhgft9
x) as depicted (at left, second illumination on the page) in a later thirteenth-century bible from Paris (ca. 1251-1275; Den Haag, KB, cod. 76 E 22, fol. 309v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76e22%3A309v_init
y) as depicted in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Bible of southern French origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 37 (3), fol. 237v):
http://tinyurl.com/y9qbm58
z) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century dome frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321) of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/hllz58b
aa) as depicted (at left) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ with illuminations by the Fauvel Master and collaborators (ca. 1320-1330; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 8, fol. 343r):
http://tinyurl.com/26lx57u
bb) as depicted in another earlier fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (ca. 1320-1340; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 157, fol. 122r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449721j/f247.item.zoom
cc) as depicted (at left; at right, the prophet Joel) in the earlier fourteenth-century dome frescoes (1330s) of 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/yeeekul
dd) as depicted (right-hand column at bottom) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (ca. 1350-1356; London, BL, Royal MS 19 D II, fol. 395v):
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_19_d_ii_f395v
ee) as depicted (?predicting the coming of Bethlehem) in a later fourteenth-century bible (ca. 1351-1375; Arles, Médiathèque d'Arles, ms. 1, fol. 399v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_072242-p.jpg
ff) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (ca. 1371-1372; Den Haag, Museum Meermanno, cod. 10 B 23, fol. 434r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_mmw_10b23%3A434r_init
gg) as depicted by André Beauneveu in the late fourteenth-century Psalter of Jean de Berry (ca. 1380-1400; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 13091, fol. 29v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84546905/f60.item.r=psautier+de+jean+de+berry.langEN.zoom
hh) as depicted (second from right) in the July calendar illumination in the very late fourteenth- and earlier fifteenth-century Breviary of Martin of Aragon (Paris, BnF, ms. Rothschild, fol. 8v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000996s/f18.item.zoom
ii) as depicted (at left) in an early fifteenth-century of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF ms. Français 10, fol. 453v):
http://tinyurl.com/yc7bk6p
jj) as depicted by Lorenzo Monaco in the earlier fifteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1420-1424) in the chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal in Florence's basilica di San Miniato al Monte:
http://tinyurl.com/yzozlck
kk) as depicted by Jan van Eyck in a lunette on a wing of his earlier fifteenth-century G(h)ent Altarpiece (1432; image expandable):
http://www.wga.hu/art/e/eyck_van/jan/09ghent/2closed1/u4annun.jpg
At somewhat higher resolution:
http://tinyurl.com/qh6h47o
The entire composition:
http://tinyurl.com/yhwbp6m
ll) as depicted by an anonymous Catalan artist in a later fifteenth-century panel painting in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon:
http://tinyurl.com/pskud4d
mm) as depicted in the later fifteenth-century vault frescoes of the loggia dell'Annunciazione in the cloisters of Genoa's chiesa di Santa Maria di Castello:
http://tinyurl.com/gnj2adk
oo) as depicted (at right) by Miguel Ximénez and workshop in a panel of his and Martín Bernad's late fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Holy Cross (completed, 1487) for the parish church of Blesa (Teruel) and now, after dismemberment, mostly in the Museo de Zaragoza:
http://tinyurl.com/ncjm3h5
Detail view (Micah):
http://tinyurl.com/ogofwsq
pp) as depicted on the late fifteenth-century rood screen (donated, 1488) in All Saints' Church in Thornham (Norfolk):
http://tinyurl.com/cr4d8hz
qq) as depicted (at right in the icon at right) in a late fifteenth-century icon (ca. 1490) from the icon range of an iconostasis in the St. Ferapont Belozero (Ferapontov Belozersky) monastery at Ferapontovo in Russia's Vologda oblast:
http://tinyurl.com/zs5khwd
rr) as depicted in a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Novgorod School icon in the Gostinopole monastery's church of St. Nicholas:
http://media.evangelizo.org/images/santibeati/M/San_Michea_Profeta/San_Michea.jpg
ss) as depicted in the late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1490 and 1510) in the santuario della Madonna di S. Stefano in Rovato (BS) in Lombardy:
http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/4h040-00060/
tt) as portrayed in high relief in the early sixteenth-century choir stalls (betw. 1501 and 1507) in the St. Martins-Kirche in Memmingen in southwestern Bavaria:
http://tinyurl.com/jxkbkvw
uu) as depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century glass window panel (ca. 1522-1526; from the abbey of Mariawald in today's Heimbach [Lkr. Düren] in the Eifel) in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O65279/panel-prophet-micah/
Best,
John Dillon
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