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Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / German translation ('Alsatian Legenda Aurea') / Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6 (probably Straßburg, 1362) / fol. 1-99
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 36: De sancto Ignatio (February 1)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Ignatius of Antioch / Life / Martyrdom (killed by lions)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Ignatius of Antioch / Posthumous events / When the Romans cut open his dead body, they find the name of Jesus written on his heart

Further details

The man with a knife and an object that could be read as heart-shaped may allude to the legend of St Ignatius's heart.

Artist or creator

Straßburg (attributed)

Date

1362

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 52ra.

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