The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 15

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Virgin Mary. Koimesis.

Synax.CP, Aug. 15, par. 1 (cols. 891-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Aug. 15.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 117r. Koimesis. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 46-47, fig. 5G1).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 136r. 1) Virgin Mary, Birth. 2) Christ, Nativity. 3) Translation of the Virgin''s Mantle to Blacherna. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 69-70, fig. 2B2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 51v. Koimesis. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 97).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 153r. 1) Virgin Mary, Birth. 2) Koimesis. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 141-2, fig. 4B10).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 181v. Translation of the Virgin's Mantle to Blacherna. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 142, fig. 4B11).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, pilaster. Koimesis. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 314, fig. T IX 10; Mijović, Menolog, p. 341, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 20, pl. 217.3).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 8, pl. 114; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 00).

Thessaloniki, Nicholas Orphanos. Koimesis. Only the end of the bier of the Virgin Mary, and Peter the Apostle swinging a censer remain. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 259, fig. 4, pl. 18; Tsitouridou, pp. 186-7, pl. 78).

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