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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. 242 (Master of the Coronation of the Virgin and workshop, c1402, with the Festes nouvelles) / fol. 100-
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 92: De sancta Theodora (September 11)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Theodora of Alexandria / Life / The devil threatens Theodora who has become a monk

Further details

Here, Theodora is already shown with the child she had supposedly sired - in the Legenda aurea, the encounter with the devil happens earlier (after the birth of the child, the devil only appears to her in disguise).

Artist or creator

Master of the Coronation of the Virgin (active 1400-1405) (and workshop)

Date

1402 (circa)

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 242

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 137rb.

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