Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 31


Translation of the Girdle of the Virgin.

Synax.CP, Aug. 31, par. 1 (cols. 935-6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 53v. Translation of relic of the girdle of the Virgin. A priest, swinging a censer, stands in front of a domed church, the Chalkoprateia in Constantinople. Landscape setting. (Hutter, II, p. 32, fig. 101).