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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Friday, January 22, 2016, at 3:07 AM, I wrote: "t) as depicted (second from right, lower register, in the panel at lower left; martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 24v): http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/16v.jpg " Er, "Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 16v". Apologies for the slip. By way of penance, a few further images of St. Vincent of Zaragoza: 1) as depicted (two scenes) in an eleventh-century troper from Autun (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal, 1169): a) Martyrdom on a cross-shaped _eculeus_ (fol. 14v, bas-de-page): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f34.item.r=Arsenal%201169.zoom b) Martyrdom by fire (fol. 15r): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f35.item.r=Arsenal%201169.zoom 2) as depicted (beaten with clubs) in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (ca. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 215v): http://tinyurl.com/hdruag4 3) as depicted (four scenes) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of books 9-16 of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1335; Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080): a) With St. Valerius of Zaragoza before Datianus / Dacianus (fol. 263r): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f531.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom b) Martyrdom on a cross-shaped _eculeus_ (fol. 263v): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f532.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom c) Martyrdom by fire (fol. 264r): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f533.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom d) Datianus / Dacianus orders the disposal of V.'s body; ravens protect it from a wolf (fol. 264v): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f534.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom 4) as depicted in the very late fourteenth- or earlier fifteenth-century Breviary of Martin of Aragon (Paris, BnF, ms. Rothschild 2529, fol. 306v): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000996s/f614.item.zoom 5) as depicted by Frei Carlos (attrib.) in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1520-1530) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435847 http://tinyurl.com/je52f2s Best again, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion