Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Introduction Calendar Abbreviations List of Iconographical Motifs List of Iconographical Scenes List of Feasts

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 1

Tryphon of Phrygia.

Gooseherd. Martyred in Phrygia under Decius.

Synax.CP, Feb. 1, par. 1 (col. 437).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Feb. 1.

BHG 1856-1858x; BiblSS XII 656-7; Holweck 991; LCI VIII 501-2.

Messina, San Salvatore 27, fol. 2r. Martyr. Orant. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 75, fig. 2B8).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 3. Martyrdom, beheading. Building. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 6, fig. 1).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 27r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 49).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 363. Martyr. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 99, II, fig. p. 363).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62, pl. 247).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 153, fig. T VIII 12; Mijović, Menolog, p. 333, fig. 43, pl. 212 [detail]; Petković, Dečani, p. 14, pl. CXXIII.2 [detail]).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, pier. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 7, pl. 64).

Vendemianus of Bithynia.
Bendimianus of Bithynia.

Hermit. Disciple of Auxentius of Bithynia. 5th cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 1, par. 1 (col. 438).

BHG 272; BiblSS II 1089; Holweck 1008; LCI V 365-6.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 27r. Monk. Praying. Vendemianus kneels, hands raised, before a cave. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 49).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 364. Monk. Praying. Vendemianus kneels, his hands raised in prayer toward the Hand of God descending from an arc of Heaven. (Menologio, I, p. 99, II, fig. p. 364).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, pier. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 7, pl. 64).