Item Info

Script: Cursive
Language: German
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial F with the Anna Selbdritt
Notes: This initial contains the image known as Anna Selbdritt. "Selbdrit" is a German term roughly translated as "three-selves" and meant to illustrate St. Anne's role in sacred history as the Mother of the Virgin Mary. The image is related to the theme of Christ's holy kinship. St. Anne was a popular saint in the late Middle Ages. The initial may have originally belonged in a hagiographical manuscript, perhaps containing a text like the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1466519
Country: Country:Austria
City/Town/Township:Vienna

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1460
Image Dimensions Width: 252 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 1:11
Creator Name: Mosemaster - Artist