
Morgan Library MS M.751, fol. 39r
1300-1310

Modern Hagiography
The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.
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.
Medieval Hagiography
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database
Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, Book IV.5, Book IV.10.
Writings by Pope Telephorus
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
Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon

See Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli.




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.




