Date:17th c.Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)Collector (major)John, the Elder Tradescant (c.1570s-c.15 Apr 1638)Subject of/in a work of artGeorge (Saint) (-c. 303)Annotation:107mm x 158mm black and white drawing of St. George slaying the dragon, after a window in the Church of St. Sophia. Image annotated in what appears to be Ashmole's hand: "The draught of St. George, Coppied out of a Booke in Mr. J: Tradescants Closet, wherein are rarely lymned, the windows (as is sd) of St. Sophias Church at Constantinople." The book in question is probably "A Book of all the Stories in the glasse-windowes of Sancta Sophia, lim'd in vellum by a Jew" itemized in the 1656 catalogue (41). This ms is also mentioned in Stirn. Bibliographic Source(s):Musaeum Tradescantianum; or, a collectio..., page: 41