Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Italy, Padua, 1436
MS M.180 fol. 100v

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Within floreate roundel, six female saints and martyrs, nimbed, including backturned woman, veiled; woman holding palm; Apollonia of Alexandria holding pincers gripping tooth; Catherine of Alexandria, crowned, holding wheel; woman holding cross in raised right hand; Agnes of Rome, with joined hands draped with cord from which hang bleeding breasts.
Beginning of Gospel reading for Common of Saints, Virgins.