5 January – Saint Telesphorus

Abrégé des histoires divines
Morgan Library MS M.751, fol. 39r
1300-1310
North Wall, Sistine Chapel

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

La vie des saints

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, Book IV.5, Book IV.10.

Liber pontificalis

Writings by Pope Telephorus

Documenta Catholic Omnia

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art
Hildesheim, Domschatz, MS. 37 (DS 37), folio 119r: “In left frame, four busts of Popes Telesphorus of Rome, name inscribed THELESPHORUS PAPA, tonsured, wearing priest’s vestments, within medallion inscribed GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO ET IN TERRA PAX HOMINIB(US) BONE UOL(UNTATIS) based on Luke 2:14.”

El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Cod. Vitrinas 17, folio 4v: SANCTVS THELESFORVS EPISCOPVS ET MARTYR NONVS A SANCTO PETRO (detail above)

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon

North Wall, Sistine Chapel (see detail above)
See Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli.
In situ
Post-Biblical Saints Art Index
Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

The Saints in Art by Joseph Maria von Radowitz.

Emblems of Saints by Which They Are Distinguished in Works of Art by F. C. Husenbeth.