{"id":13677,"date":"2023-02-01T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2023-02-01T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:17:42","slug":"learning-about-making-manuscripts-with-a-cistercian-prayer-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/learning-about-making-manuscripts-with-a-cistercian-prayer-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Making Manuscripts with a Cistercian Prayer Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02-750x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02-750x195.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02-768x200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-10r-detail-02.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The facsimile of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/facsimiles\/herrenalb-prayer-book-facsimile\" target=\"_blank\">Herrenalb Prayer Book<\/a> has much to offer someone teaching or learning about <strong>the making of medieval manuscripts<\/strong>. The manuscript is a Christian prayer book focused on themes\u2014the Passion of Christ and the Virgin Mary\u2014of special interest to the Cistercian order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hl aligncenter\"><span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span>The manuscript&#8217;s principal scribe, <strong>Johannes Z\u00fcrn of Neibsheim<\/strong>, was cantor of the Cistercian abbey of Herrenalb in southwestern Germany.<span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In monasteries in the Benedictine tradition\u2014of which the Cistercian order is a part\u2014<strong>the cantor is responsible for planning the monastery&#8217;s services and arranging for the copying of books<\/strong>, and Z\u00fcrn is known to have played a part in the creation of a dozen manuscripts for his community between 1468 and 1499.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02-750x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02-750x352.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-103r-detail-02.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text Written by a Cistercian Monk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Z\u00fcrn wrote the lion&#8217;s share of the manuscript&#8217;s text<\/strong> (fols. 1v-66r and 101r-103v), leaving twenty-nine pages near the end blank so that others could add prayers, which a second scribe did (fols. 66v-68r). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hl alignleft\"><span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span>The text was written first on unbound sheets of parchment<span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As was customary throughout the period in which illuminated books were made by hand, <strong>the text was written first on unbound sheets of parchment<\/strong> that would later be folded in half, grouped into bundles, and sewn together at the spine. <strong>The writing of the Herrenalb manuscript began in 1482<\/strong>, the date that appears at the end of the Hours of Cross, the first of the book&#8217;s devotional texts (fol. 26r).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-26r-detail-02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-26r-detail-02-1.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-26r-detail-02-1-300x54.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing with a Metal Stylus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13695\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone\u2014presumably Z\u00fcrn, although it is difficult to say for certain\u2014left <strong>cues in the outer margin for whoever wrote the rubrics<\/strong> (the headings in red that label texts or describe ritual actions). Only one has survived (fol. 67r). It is not written with quill and ink in the formal script of the main text but rather in a less formal script with a metal stylus leaving a light mark spelling <em>col <\/em>with an abbreviation mark through the <em>l<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the scribe writing in red correspondingly wrote <em>col<\/em> with an abbreviation mark, an unusual Latin designation for the prayer it introduces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-02-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-02-1.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-02-1-300x57.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaboration with Urban Artists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the text was probably written before the manuscript was illuminated, and we know from the colophon that the book was not finished until 1484 (fol. 103r-v). Although <strong>the manuscript was written in the monastery<\/strong>, the illumination was surely contracted out to secular painters working in a city in the northern upper Rhineland, perhaps Mainz or Speyer, or Strasbourg in Alsace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he wrote, <strong>Z\u00fcrn reserved square areas 4 text lines high for initials to be painted later at the left edge of the writing area<\/strong>. He routinely indicated the letter to be painted there in the outer margin of the page. For example, on the page that has the cue for the rubric, he wrote an <em>a<\/em> in the outer margin for the painted initial <em>A<\/em> of <em>Ave facies domini<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-03.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-67r-detail-03-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Z\u00fcrn also left whole unruled pages blank, many destined to receive full-page miniatures. A series of <strong>instructions for the artists about the placement and subjects of the miniatures<\/strong> are at the very tops of the pages on which they survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hl aligncenter\"><span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span>It is possible, even probable, that <strong>other, similar inscriptions were cut away entirely <\/strong>in the later process of sewing and trimming (or &#8220;squaring&#8221;) the leaves to receive the book&#8217;s wooden covers.<span class=\"block-hl-line\"><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The simple phrase <em>von dem crutz genommen<\/em> (&#8220;taken from the cross&#8217;) appears at the very top edge of the page with the miniature of the <strong>Descent from the Cross <\/strong>(fol. 22r).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-detail-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-detail-01.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-detail-01-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-1.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-22r-1-300x432.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jewish High Priest in Place of the Roman Governor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The picture instructions were not always followed<\/strong>. The phrase <em>fur pylato gefort<\/em> (&#8220;brought for Pilate&#8221;) elicited a representation not of Christ before Pilate but of <strong>Christ before the Jewish high priest Annas<\/strong>, subjects often confused and that can be difficult to distinguish from one another (fol. 11r). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r-detail-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r-detail-01.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r-detail-01-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-11r-300x431.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Veronica&#8217;s Veil without Veronica<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The instruction for <strong>a miniature of Saint Veronica with her miraculous image of Christ&#8217;s face<\/strong> (<em>s veronica mit dem antzlitt<\/em>) prompted a miniature of Veronica&#8217;s veil held by angels, but the saint is not represented (fol. 66v). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1-750x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1-750x100.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1-768x102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-detail-01-1.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-1.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-66v-1-300x436.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Change in Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One instruction was ignored in favor of a very different solution<\/strong>. No miniature was painted on the page (fol. 27r) with the instruction <em>da er maria magdalena<\/em> . . . (&#8220;then he [revealed himself to] Mary Magdalene&#8221;) for the Noli Me Tangere (&#8220;Do not touch me&#8221;), an appropriate subject to follow the miniature of the Resurrection on the previous page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27r-detail-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27r-detail-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27r-detail-01.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27r-detail-01-300x39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-750x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-750x539.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-1536x1105.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-26v-27r-1-2048x1473.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, <strong>a miniature showing Christ on the cross between the Virgin and Saint John with angels collecting Christ&#8217;s blood in golden chalices<\/strong> was painted on the other side of the leaf (fol. 27v). This miniature does not continue the narrative sequence of the preceding scenes but instead introduces the following text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27v.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27v.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-f-27v-300x421.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maintaining Proper Order<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, as an aid to assembling the gatherings of folded leaves onto sewing supports (which create the bumps on the spine of a manuscript), <strong>catchwords were included in the bottom margin of the last page of each gathering<\/strong>. In the Herrenalb manuscript, some of these were manifestly written by Z\u00fcrn as he copied the text, and others appear to have been added closer to the time of binding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-750x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-750x558.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-1536x1142.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Berlin-theol.-lat.-qu.-9-ff-77v-78r-1-2048x1522.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is much more of interest to be found in the Herrenalb Prayer Book, not least the relationship of its Passion miniatures to the nearly contemporary <strong>engravings by Martin Schongauer<\/strong> that served as their models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Heinzer, Felix. &#8220;Andacht in Wort und Bild zum &#8216;Herrenalber Gebetbuch&#8217; von 1482\/84.&#8221; <em>Zeitschift f\u00fcr W\u00fcrttembergische Landesgeschichte<\/em> 62 (2003): 85-99; reprinted as &#8220;Andacht in Word [sic] und Bild zum &#8216;Herrenalber Gebetbuch&#8217; von 1482\/84,&#8221; in <em>Klosterreform und Mittelalterliche Buchkultur im deutschen S\u00fcdwesten<\/em>, 464-81. Studien und Texten 39. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruiz Garc\u00eda, Elisa. <em>Devocionario Cisterciense de Herrenalb: Ms. Theol. Lat. quart. 9 de la Staatsbibliothek Preu<\/em><em>\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz de Berlin<\/em>. Madrid: Millennium Liber, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the facsimile of the Herrenalb Prayer Book offer a precious insight into the ancient and fascinating art of crafting medieval codices? 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