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Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, lectionary copied at Mar Mattai, 1219-20

Place: Mar Mattai · today Iraq
Date: 1220

Page of twenty of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, painted as busts in a red and gold star-pattern grid, from a Syriac lectionary copied at the monastery of Mar Mattai near Mosul in 1219-20 (Vatican Library, Vat. sir. 559, fol. 93v).

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Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, lectionary copied at Mar Mattai, 1219-20

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