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Title: Dedicatory Image of the Lippoldsberg Gospels
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Description: This is a modern copy of the dedication page. The original manuscript was lost during World War II. The page presents an enthroned St. George holding a banderole while below a monk-scribe/artist hands a book--likely the Lippoldsberg Gospels--to Margareta, the prioress of the convent of St. George at Lippoldsberg. The scribe/artist is dressed in the clothing of an Augustinian. In the four corners of the image border are roundels. Three contain nuns of the monastery while the upper left contains an image of Gunther, Provost of the convent of St. George. All four figures raise their hands in supplication.
Source: Lippoldsberg Monastery Church
Rights: Reproduced with permission from the Lippoldsberg Monastery church. Not to be reproduced without securing permission first.
Subject (See Also): Dedicatees and Dedications George, Martyr and Saint Monasticism Nuns Patronage Prioresses Scribes and Scriptoria Women in Religion
Geographic Area: Germany
Century: 12, 20
Date: 1150 - 1170
Related Work: Black and white copies of other illustrated pages from the Lippoldsberg Gospels can be seen on the Lippoldsberg Monastery Church website.
Current Location: Kassel, Landesbibliothek 2° MS theol. 59, 73r (MS now unable to be located)
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Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment); Paint; Gold leaf
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Related Resources: Hotchin, Julie. "Women's Reading and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-century Germany: The Library of the Nuns of Lippoldsberg." Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany. Edited by Alison I. Beach. Brepols, 2007. Pages 139-189;