The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 7

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John the Baptist.

Synax.CP, Jan. 7, par. 1 (cols. 375-6).

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 48v. Preaching. John the Baptist, holding a cross-staff, points to an axe at the base of a tree. At the left, three Pharisees and Sadducees. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 48, fig. 14).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 24r. John the Baptist, holding a cross-staff and an open scroll with a pseudo-inscription. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 43).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 291r. John the Baptist stands beside a tree with an axe at the base.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 300. Preaching. John the Baptist, holding a cross-staff, points to an axe at the base of a tree. At the left, three Pharisees and Sadducees. (Menologio, I, p. 82, II, fig. p. 300; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 48, fig. 15).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall, soffit. John the Baptist, wearing a garment of skins, holds a scroll with a fragmentary inscription. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 132, fig. T VIII 20a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 332, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 14).

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