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 November 16

Matthew the Evangelist.

Evangelist. Apostle. Surnamed Levi. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: August 9.

Synax.CP, Nov. 16, par. 1 (cols. 227-30).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 16.

BHG 1224-1228d; BiblSS IX 110-45; Holweck 684; LCI VIII 588-601; ODB 1315; ODCC 890; ODS 294.

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 2r. Apostle, holding book. (Mackeprang, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, pl. III; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 57, fig. 1E8).

Mount Sinai, gr. 500, fol. 302r. Apostle. Writing. Matthew sits on a high-backed faldstool, writing on a scroll. Opposite, a desk with lectern. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 66, fig. 2A3; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 77, fig. 215).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17r. Martyrdom, burning? Half-figure, in flames. Damaged miniature. (Hutter, II, p. 9, fig. 29).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268r. Apostle, holding book.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 186. Apostle. Burial. Matthew's body, hands crossed, lies in a sarcophagus before a high wall. A tonsured cleric swings a censer at the head of the sarcophagus. Two other clerics mourn. (Menologio, I, p. 50, II, fig. p. 186).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, north side. Matthew? Standing figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 352, fig. 63).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Apostle, holding book. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 84, fig. T II 37; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326, fig. 41, pl. 202).

Barlaam of Antioch.

Martyred in Antioch under Numerian.

Synax.CP, Nov. 16, Synax. selecta (cols. 229-30).

BHG 221-223; BiblSS II 786-7; DHGE VI 812-3; Holweck 132-3; LCI V 312.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17r. Martyrdom, burning. Half-figure, in flames. Damaged miniature. (Hutter, II, p. 9, fig. 29).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268r. Martyr, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 187. Refusing to sacrifice. Torture, burning. Barlaam, his back turned, is dragged toward an altar by a torturer in order to hold his hand in the flames. Inside a round-arched tempietto at the head of a flight of four steps is the golden statue of a seated male divinity, beardless, semi-nude, ankles crossed, wearing a diadem and holding a spear. (Menologio, I, p. 50, II, fig. p. 187).