Lippo Memmi
St. Paul

Circa 1325-30
Tempera on wood, gold ground
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Instead of a book, St. Paul holds several of the letters he wrote to various churches.  The letter on top has the superscription AD GALATAS -- i.e, the letter to the Galatians.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke