Stand-alone miniature on paper depicting a Benedictine nun kneeling before Christ and the instruments of the Passion. Banderoles containing devotional phrases extend from the mouths of the nun and Christ; an excerpt from Psalm 31 (Vulgate) is written ...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Benedictine nuns, Nuns as artists, Devotional objects, and Catholic Church
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Nuns, Books and reading, Nuns as artists, and Psalters
