Figure 17: Thomas Messingham, Florilegium insulae sanctorum
1620s:
Thomas Messingham, Florilegium insulae sanctorum (Paris, 1626). This adaptation of earlier Latin Lives of Irish saints includes illustrations of the three most important – Ss Columbcille, Patrick and Brigid on its frontispiece. Here Patrick is dressed as a bearded Tridentine Bishop, and iconography that was to become the standard representation of the saint.
