| An unusually large historiated initial A(d te levavi) from the first Sunday in Advent in a Gradual commissioned by Abbot Ludwig Oschwald (1459-71) in 1463 for use at Salem. An abbot in a black cowl with hands clasped in prayer, mitred and carrying a crozier under his left arm, is kneeling before a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl, with a crozier in his right hand and, his left hand raised in acknowledgement of the abbot. At their feet are the arms of Clairvaux and the abbot's personal arms, a white dove sitting on a green twig against a blue background and with a flower (lily?) in its beak.
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