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 January 13

Hermylus and Stratonicus of Singidunum.

Hermylus, a deacon, martyred with Stratonicus at Singidunum in Dardania under Licinius.

Synax.CP, Jan. 13, par. 1 (col. 387).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 13.

BHG 744y-745b; BiblSS V 58-9; Holweck 478; LCI VI 168.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 88r. Martyrdom, drowning. One is about to be thrown head first into the Danube river; the other is already in the water. Each wears loin cloth, and has a stone tied around his neck. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," pp. 50-1, fig. 26).

Mount Sinai, gr. 512, fol. 2v. Martyrs, holding crosses. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 23, figs. 1B6, 1B8; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 71, fig. 198; color pl. 15).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 24v. Martyrdom, drowning. One, nude, is in the water; the other, half-figure, is on the shore. Damaged. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 44).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 294v. Martyrs, holding crosses.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 314. Martyrdom, drowning. One is about to be thrown head first into the Danube river; the other is already in the water. Each wears loin cloth, and has a rope tied around his neck. (Menologio, I, p. 85, II, fig. p. 314; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 51, fig. 27).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 585, fol. 54v. Martyrs, holding crosses. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 45, fig. 1E4).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, drowning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pls. 51, 58; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 108.1).

James of Nisibus.

Bishop of Nisibis. Martyred in 338 under Shapur II.

Synax.CP, Jan. 13, par. 2 (cols. 388-390).

BHG 769; BiblSS VI 411-2; Fedalto 850; Holweck 516; LCI VII 51-2; ODCC 721.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. 8 Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 13, pls. 51, 54).

8 Not identified by Mijović, Menolog.