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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 83 (630) (follower of the Boqueteaux Master, c1400) / fol. 100-
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 74: De sanctis Gordiano et Epimacho (May 10)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Gordianus and Epimachus / Single figure / Unclear if Gordianus or Epimachus

Further details

The image shows a deacon, but according to the Legenda aurea Gordianus was a layman, and there is no information about Epimachus's station, in some baroque images he is shown as bishop.

Artist or creator

Master of the Boqueteaux (active in Paris, second half of the 14th century) (follower)

Date

1400 (circa)

Location

Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, 83 (630)

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 121vb.

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