The “Paris Gregory” was made for Emperor Basil I between 879 and 883, commissioned by the Patriarch Photios I in Constantinople. It contains the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. This illustration shows, at top “the dream of Constantine”, “the battle…
Fol. 67v from Passages d'outremer de Sébastien Mamerot.
June 10, 1098, Peter Bartholomew, a priest from Southern France, claimed that Saint Andrew had come to him in visions and told him where to find the Holy Lance within the city. Despite a relic…
Fol. 216r, from Matthew Paris' Chronica maiora II.
This miniature shows Henry III of England carrying the Relic of the Holy Blood at Westminster Abbey in 1247. This relic of the blood of Christ was sent from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Robert…