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Legenda aurea sanctorum
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Legenda aurea sanctorum

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

[ca. 1300-1320]

The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45. Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated ...

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Calendar: January (fol. 1r)
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Calendar: January (fol. 1r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has Janus looking in both directions while dining, and the zodiacal sign of Aquarius (the water carrier). The scenes in the historiated border are: the stoning of St S...

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Calendar: January (fol. 1v)
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Calendar: January (fol. 1v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border has St. Agnes of Rome holding a palm branch and with her symbol, the lamb; unidentified abbot or a monk holding a palm branch and a book; Pope Marcellus I falling from a horse; ...

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Calendar: February (fol. 2r)
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Calendar: February (fol. 2r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a man warming his feet at a fire, and the zodiacal sign of Pisces (the fish). The scenes in the historiated border are: St. Brigid of Ireland holding a lantern; po...

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Calendar: February (fol. 2v)
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Calendar: February (fol. 2v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border has an unidentified bishop; St. Peter, seated, holding a book and his symbol, the key (corresponding to the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, "Cathedra Sancti Petri"); possibly (...

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Calendar: March (fol. 3r)
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Calendar: March (fol. 3r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a man pruning, and the zodiacal sign of Aries (the ram). In the border are depicted three figures, two bishops and a pope, possibly St. Albinus, bishop of Angers a...

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Calendar: March (fol. 3v)
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Calendar: March (fol. 3v)

[ca. 142-?]

The scenes in the historiated border are: Resurrection of Christ (Easter), St. Gertrude of Nivelles, an unidentified monk holding a crosier and a book, and the Annunciation to the Virgin by the angel ...

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Calendar: April (fol. 4r)
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Calendar: April (fol. 4r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a man holding a branch, and the zodiacal sign of Taurus (the bull). The scenes in the historiated border are: an unidentified bishop with a mitre and a processiona...

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Calendar: April (fol. 4v)
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Calendar: April (fol. 4v)

[ca. 142-?]

The scenes in the historiated border are St. Opportuna, a Benedictine nun and abbess; St George killing the dragon; St. Mark the Evangelist writing on a scroll; and an unidentified bishop with a mitre...

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Calendar: May (fol. 5r)
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Calendar: May (fol. 5r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a falconer, and the zodiacal sign of Gemini with the twins behind a coat of arms in red (gules). The scenes in the historiated border are: a king kneeling by a cro...

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Calendar: May (fol. 5v)
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Calendar: May (fol. 5v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an unidentified abbot and three unidentified bishops or popes with mitres and crosiers.

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Calendar: June (fol. 6r)
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Calendar: June (fol. 6r)

[ca. 142-?]

The double-compartment miniature has a man making hay, and the zodiacal sign of Cancer (the crab). The historiated border has St Barnabas the Apostle holding a book and an axe; and two unidentified bi...

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