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Saint Jerome. Etching by V. Denon, 1791, after Titian.

Saint Jerome. Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1588, after Tintoretto.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with angels and the doctors of the Church consulting upon the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1785, after G. Farington after G. Reni.

St Jerome reading a book at a desk in his study.

The book of Paradise : being the histories and sayings of the monks and ascetics of the Egyptian desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and others. The Syriac texts, according to the recension of ʻAnân-Îshôʻ of Bêth ʻÂbhê / edited with an English translation by E.A. Wallis Budge.

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Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.

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The book of Paradise : being the histories and sayings of the monks and ascetics of the Egyptian desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and others. The Syriac texts, according to the recension of ʻAnân-Îshôʻ of Bêth ʻÂbhê / edited with an English translation by E.A. Wallis Budge.