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| Category | Manuscript |
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| Origin: artist/workshop | |
| Date | 15C/4 |
| Reference No | MS D 5, fol 1r |
| Size | 30x22 |
| Provenance | Altenberg Cistercian Abbey |
| Present Location | Duesseldorf, Universitaetsbibliothek (on loan from City of Duesseldorf) |
| Bibliography | Paffrath 1990, 91 |
| Illustration From | photo - Library |
| Other illustrations | Paffrath 1990, 91 |
| Country | Germany |
| Description: |
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| One of 21 historiated initials in this late fifteenth century Missal intended for the use of the abbot of Altenberg. Bernard is depicted in a black cowl with the white tunic showing underneath, crozier in his right hand and book in his left, in a landscape with houses and a church, within the initial H(odie) from the Vigil Mass of Christmas. The border is richly decorated. Bernard has a ' tuft'. |