MALALEEL. – Patriarch mentioned in Gen. 5:12–13 and represented in one of the medallions of the cycle of patriarchs painted on the walls of the central nave of the basilica of S. Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome (1123–44). He has a youthful appearance; the inscription below reads: «Malalehel vixit octingentis nonaginta annis».
BIBL.: G. Biasiotti–S. Pesarini, Pitture del XII sec. scoperte nella basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme a Roma, in Studi romani, 1 (1913), p. 251, tav. 25, 2. Enrico Josi