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| Title | [Manuscript illumination: coronation scene] | |
| Collection | Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection | |
| Date | [13th century] | |
| Id Number Current Accession | F.15 | |
| Id Number Current Repository | 1200 | |
| Inscription | T.E.B Number "3725" and "12/6" in pencil. | |
| Location Creation Site | Germany | |
| Subject | Illuminated manuscripts; | |
| Material | Ink and paint on parchment | |
| Notes | Manuscript fragment with two columns of German text and a miniature, probably from a Bible. Probably made by a lay person for personal use (as opposed to being made in a monastery or manuscript workshop). This would have originally been part of the Central School's Teaching Examples Collection. | |
| Object Notes | Manuscript fragment, mounted, two columns of handwritten script in black and rubrics (red) in German on verso. Miniature: Coronation scene with figures representing Christ (with stigmatta) and God - German text and rubrics. Scene with God, crowned and seated, placing a crown on the head of a younger kneeling man with stigmata on his hands, and blood on his chest (presumably depicting Christ). Dark blue background. | |
| Object References | (plate numbers 98 & 99) | |
| Relation References | Book: Roth;Edith;, Mediaeval Book Illumination in Europe, Thames and Hudson. 1968. | |
| Rights | University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection | |
| Work Type | Fine Art | |