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Saint Helen and Jude with the tree crosses. der drei aufgerichteten Kreuze, with text 'Ubi orabant crucem signu Christi'. From: Prayer of Wessobrunn (Wessobrunner Gebet), and other writings. Carolingian, before 814. Written in the diocese of Augsburg, Bavaria. The manuscript includes 70 other short, mainly theological, texts. Folios 1 verso?21 recto contain the legend of the True Cross, of which the primitive illustrations, probably Bavarian, form one of the earliest cycles of non-biblical content in the history of German illumination. Written in Carolingian minuscule it shows the influence of Anglo-Saxon script in the use of runes. Clm 22053, fol. 13v

Location Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/Munich/Germany

Unique Identifier ART562823

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3436px × 4551px

Photo Credit bpk Bildagentur / (name of museum) /(name of photographer) / Art Resource, NY

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