Saint Agnes holding her attribute, historiated initial on a Leaf from a Prayer Book

Notes:

Housed in a mat frame (160 x 110 mm)., 6-line historiated and illuminated initial painting of St. Agnes of Rome with a simple white face and rosy cheeks, holding a lamb possibly in the Nonnenarbeiten style, which is associated with predominately female monastic deocation of their devotional books. Rubrication in red. On verso, a 2-line intial O decorated in red with faded brown pen florishes., Single leaf from a devotional Prayer Book featuring St. Agnes holding a lamb enclosed in an illuminated initial O. Text opens with a prayer to St. Agnes for the Feast of St. Agnes, celebrated on January 21., 1 column of 14-15 lines ruled in dry point written in Gothic Textualis script., and "The illumination on recto is in the style named Nonnenarbeiten (see J. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists, the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, 1997), and associated with predominantly female monastic decoration of their own devotional books." --from dealer description on inside cover of the frame.

Date Created:

[1440 TO 1460]

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, Agnes, Saint, Martyr, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany--15th century, Textura (Gothic script), Illuminated manuscripts--Germany--15th century, Historiated initials, and detached leaves

Language:

lat

Rights:

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