Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 28


Moses the Ethiopian.
Moses of Scete.

Hermit in Scete Desert in Egypt. 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Aug. 28, par. 1 (cols. 929-32).

BHG 1307z-1310c; BiblSS IX 652-4; Holweck 723; LCI VIII 24.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 53r. Monk, holding cross, and companions. Three-quarter figures. (Hutter, II, p. 32, fig. 100).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, pilaster. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 320, fig. T IX 16d; Mijović, Menolog, p. 341, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 20).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Moses? Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. Inscription not preserved. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, p. 49, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).