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Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 244-245 (Master of Jacques de Besançon, 1480-1490) / Fr. 245
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 111: De sancto Stephano Papa (August 2)
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 112: De Inventione Corporis sancti Stephani (August 3)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Stephen / Posthumous events / Gamaliel points to baskets with red and white roses and with saffron, standing for Martyrs (Stephen), Confessor (Gamaliel, Nicodemus) and Virgins (Abibas)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Stephen / Posthumous events / Following the vision of Lucianus, bishop Johannes of Jerusalem discovers the graves of Gamaliel, Stephen, Nicodemus, and Abibas

Further details

The image appears before the Life of Pope St Stephen but illustrates the following chapter, the Invention of St Stephen.

Artist or creator

Master of Jacques de Besançon (François le Barbier, active c1480-1498)

Date

1480 (circa) - 1490

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 245

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 20v.

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