Work of Art Record 52732

Record No

52732

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.W861.12

Location

Germany, Wolfenbüttel: Herzog-August Bibliothek

Date

first half 13c.

Subject Headings

Abraham, Sacrificing Isaac

Description

Possibly Abraham, Sacrificing Isaac.

Notes

In the second half of the 13c. the sketches were written over with the beginning of Guillaume de St.-Thierry's Epistola ad Fratres de Monte Dei. Manuscript is from the Cistercian monastery of Marienthal near Helmstedt.

Citations

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Mittelalterliche Handschriften (1972), pp. 112-137; 13 figs.

Buchthal, H., "Musterbuch" of Wolfenbüttel (1979), passim; figs. 2-5, 10, 12-13, 16-17, 19-20

New York, Metropolitan Museum, Glory of Byzantium (1997), cat. 319; pp. 482-484; color fig. p. 483

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