Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic, MS XIV A 17

Passional of Abbess Kunegunda Facsimile Edition

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The Passional of Abbess Kunegunda is a Christian devotional book containing mystical treatises on the Passion of Christ and salvation history, most by the Dominican friar Colda of Colditz. The manuscript was written and illuminated between 1312 and 1321 by canon Beneš at the Benedictine convent of Saint George in Prague Castle for the abbess, Kunegunda, daughter of Ottokar II, King of Bohemia. The subjects of the twenty-six miniatures, many of which comprise multiple scenes, are deeply connected to the spiritual meaning of the text and designed for affective engagement by the medieval reader-viewer.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Passional of Abbess Kunegunda": Pasionál Přemyslovny Kunhuty = Passionale Abbatissae Cunegundis facsimile edition, published by Odeon, 1975

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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Pasionál Přemyslovny Kunhuty = Passionale Abbatissae Cunegundis

Prague: Odeon, 1975

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Passional of Abbess Kunegunda: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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