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Dedication page with Otto III receiving the book from a cleric. Prayerbook of Otto III. Datable between 983 and 991. This small prayer book was once owned by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (980?1002). Intended for the sovereign's private devotion and is one of only two royal prayer books from the early Middle Ages to survive. It was probably commissioned after the year 984, presumably by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, when the four-year-old Otto was committed to the care of his mother and grandmother, the empresses Theophanu and Adelaide, after his father's death. The texts of the prayers are written in Carolingian minuscule in gold ink on purple ground. Clm 30111, fol. 43v.

Location Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/Munich/Germany

Unique Identifier ART562860

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3922px × 3792px

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

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