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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. 100-210
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 102: De sanctis Nazario et Celso (July 28)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Nazarius and Celsus / Nazarius and Celsus are thrown into the sea and miraculously saved
Saints / Saints A - Z / Nazarius and Celsus / Martyrdom (both beheaded)

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Both Nazarius and the boy Celsus were thrown into the sea and rescued through a miracle, some time later they were both beheaded. Here, only Celsus is shown being thrown into the sea (from the land, not from a boat as necessary for the narrative of the Legenda Aurea), only Nazarius is beheaded.

Artist or creator

Straßburg (attributed)

Date

1362

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 125va.

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