Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Italy, Padua, 1436
MS M.180 fol. 94v

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Fifteen martyrs, nimbed, eight (?) holding palms; Stephen Protomartyr, bleeding from wounds in head, holding four bloody stones in fold of garment with right hand and palm with left hand; martyr holding bannered staff with right hand and palm with left hand.
Beginning of Gospel reading for Common of Saints, many martyrs.