Iconography

PORTRAITS

Clerics / Popes / Miltiades (or Melchiades, died 314, r. 310 or 311-314)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 9228 (Follower of the Bedford Master, c1420) / fol. 1-99
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 32: De Sexagesima
Saints / Saints A - Z / Silvester / Life / Introducing the observation of Sexagesima

Further details

This image could allude to the text of the Legenda aurea, according to which Pope Melchiades and Pope Silvester introduced Sexagesima.

Artist or creator

Bedford Master (follower)

Date

1420 (circa)

Location

Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 9228

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 62rb.

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Web resources

Photo on external webpage

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