Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Italy, Padua, 1436
MS M.180 fol. 92v

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Sebastian of Rome: Scene, Torture -- Sebastian, rayed nimbus, wearing short loincloth, arms behind him, his body, bleeding, pierced by several arrows, stands with back to tree. He is flanked by four torturers, two aiming arrows, one with crossbow and two arming crossbows, one backturned with foot on bow.
Beginning of Gospel reading for the Common of Saints, martyr.