Weckerlin Illuminated Manuscript Images
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Scanned pages of the 1887 Weckerlin illuminated manuscript housed at Mount St. Scholastica, a Benedictine convent in Atchinson Kansas. These images accompany an article published in the Winter 2016 issue of Magistra: "The Weckerlin Family's Commitment to a Monastic Vow: Medieval Bookmaking in Nineteenth-Century Alsace" by Virginia Blanton and Melissa Morris.
Manuscript Description
- Title: Vies des Saints
- Origin: Alsace
- Date: before 1887
- Foliation: pp. 149 continuous numbering (missing p. 43 due to misnumbering of the artist)
- Language: French (with one Biblical verse in Latin
- Script: French roundhand
- Artist: Victor Weckerlin
- Scribe: unknown
- Contents: Fleurs du Desert (pp.1-59), Vies des Saintes Solitaires (pp.60-109), Vie de Saint Benoit (pp.110-148), Prayer to Saint Benoit (p.149)