| Late thirteenth-century or early fourteenth-century Antiphonary from the Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Seligenthal with five large initials. In the margin it also has a self-portrait of the scribe Adelhaid in a blueish-grey cowl, white wimple, and black veil, standing before a nimbed Bernard in a blueish-grey cowl with his hood partially over his head. He has a red book with gold studs in his right hand and a primitive red crozier in his left. The text around the nun reads 'Finis adest operis mercedem posco laboris. Et qui me scribebat Adelhaidis nomen habebat' (Having arrived at the end of the work I ask for the reward of my labour. She who writes me has the name of Adelhaid). Around Bernard it reads: 'Sanctus Bernhardus. Dominus noster Jhesus Chrsitus ipse erit merces tua, fiat fiat' (Saint Bernard: Our Lord Jesus Christ will himself be your reward).
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