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 27

James the Persian.
James Intercisus.

Megalomartyr. Martyred in Persia under Bahram V.

Synax.CP, Nov. 27, par. 1 (cols. 259-60).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 27.

BHG 772-773e; BiblSS VI 356-62; Holweck 520; LCI VII 42-4.

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 179r. Martyr, holding cross. (Mackeprang, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, pl. IV; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 58, fig. 1F8).

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 187r. Martyrdom, dismemberment. The executioner is dismembering James, who is nude, with a knife. Church. (Mackeprang, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, pl. IV; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 59, fig. 1F9).

Genoa, Miss. Urbana 36, fol. 177r. Holding cross. Wearing tunic and mantle. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 44, fig. 1D11).

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 244r. 1) Martyrdom, dismemberment. James, wearing loin cloth, is being dismembered in front of an arcaded facade. The half-figure of King Bahram V, wearing crown and loros, appears in a round window above the arcade. The busts of four other witnesses can be seen in arched windows. Damaged. 2) Initial A. Figure pressing foot down on a pitchfork. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 91, figs. 3A5-6).

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 71, fol. 195r. Martyr, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. p. 102, fig. 3C8).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 18v. Martyrdom, dismemberment. James, nude, is being dismembered. (Hutter, II, p. 10, fig. 32).

Paris, gr. 580, fol. 2v. Wearing Persian dress. Orant. (Omont, Miniatures, p. 50, pl. 102; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 21, fig. 1A12).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 269r. Martyr, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 209. Martyrdom, dismemberment. King Bahram V, wearing crown, sits on a faldstool. Behind him stand four attendants wearing Persian hats and carrying spears. The executioner is stabbing James, wearing loin cloth, in the throat. His limbs have already been cut off. At right, a block and axe. Wall and two buildings. (BiblSS VI, fig. col. 357-8; Menologio, I, p. 57, II, fig. p. 209).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, dismemberment. James, wearing loin cloth, is being dismembered. One execution stabs him in the abdomen. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 96, fig. T IV 21; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326, fig. 42, pl. 207).

Paramon of Bithynia.

Martyred with 370 companions in Bithynia under Decius.

Synax.CP, Nov. 27, par. 2 (cols. 260-1); Nov. 29, Synax. selecta (cols. 263-6).

BiblSS X 326-8; Holweck 771.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 19r. Nov. 29. Martyrdom, beheading. With companions. (Hutter, II, p. 10, fig. 33).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 269r. Nov. 29. Bishop, holding book.

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Nov. 29. Martyr, holding cross. At the head of a group of companions. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 98, fig. T IV 27; Mijović, Menolog, p. 328, fig. 42, pl. 200).

Acacius Climacus.

Monk, probably at Mount Latros in Caria. Known from John of Climacus' Ladder of Paradise. Confessor. 6th cen.

SEE ALSO: March 30.

Synax.CP, Nov. 27, par. 3 (cols. 261-262); Nov. 26, Synax. sel. (cols. 257-60).

BiblSS I 140-3; Holweck 10; LCI V 15.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 269r. Nov. 26. Monk, holding cross.