Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 22


Mary Magdalen.

Follower of Christ. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, July 22, par. 1 (cols. 833-5).

BHG 1161x-1162c; BiblSS VIII 1078-1107; Holweck 678; LCI VII 516-41; ODCC 884; ODS 270-1.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 48v. Woman saint, holding cross. Mary Magdalen stands behind a low wall. Building with tympanum framing bust in grisaille. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 91).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Mary Magdalen?70 Woman saint. Half-figure. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 297, fig. T III 44b; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

70 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 298.