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Record Number:
4547
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Title:
The "Liber miraculorum" of Unterlinden: An Icon in Its Convent Setting [importance of images in nuns' and lay peoples' devotional practices based on a manuscript that records the miracles worked by an icon of Mary ; role played by spiritual advisers as the givers of images].
Source:
The Sacred Image East and West. Edited by Robert Ousterhout and Leslie Brubaker. Illinois Byzantine Studies IV. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pages 147 - 190. Reprinted in The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. Zone Books, 1998. Pages 279-315.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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Art History- Painting
Asceticism
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France- Convent of Unterlinden
Icons
Images
Liber Miraculorum, Devotional Work
Manuscripts
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Cult
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art
Miracles
Monasticism
Monks
Prints
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
14- 15
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; Colmar, Bibliothèque de la Ville, MS. 495. The "Liber Miraculorum" of Unterlinden. Dated to the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Records the cult and miracles attributed to an icon of Mary at the convent during the first half of the fourteenth cent
Illustrations:
Twenty-six figures. Twelve pages from the "Liber Miraculorum." Most depict the panel painting of the Marian icon, in some cases with a group of worshippers and in other cases with the recipient of a miracle. Two prints pasted into the "Liber Miraculorum." Seven illustrations from other manuscripts. Panel painting of the Virgin of Fröndenberg, Dortmund. Two illustrations of a reliquary preserved in the shrine of Christine von Stommeln, Jülich. Portable altarpiece made of texts and images printed on parchment, German, ca. 1490, Washington , D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection. Plan of the Convent of Unterlinden, Colmar.
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Year of Publication:
1995.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0252020960