Manuscripts

Queens’ MS 77d

The Martyrdom of St James the Great ordered by Herod Agrippa: St James’s companion is the scribe Josias who, according to the Golden Legend, led the saint to his martyrdom, saw him cure a sick man on the way, and asked to be converted. The high priest Abiathar swiftly obtained Herod’s order to have Josias executed together with St James.

Queens’ MS 77d, one of Queens’ three leaves from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese containing miniatures by Pacino di Bonaguida (active c. 1303–c.1347), In Italian, Florence, c. 1340.