The Flabellum of Hohenbourg
Rosalie B. Green
TWENTY years ago the British Museum acquired a manuscript of singular interest, under signature Add. 42497. It consists strip vellum seven and half inches high thirty-four long, at one time folded in accordion fashion into panels two wide, painted on both sides with scenes from life St. John Baptist (Figs. 1 2). The are mutilated their beginning and, since series returns along reverse leaf, also incomplete end. date execution is late twelfth century. style immediately reminiscent Hortus Deliciarum Herrad Landsberg, famous encyclopedia, now destroyed, which was compiled illustrated convent Mount Hohenbourg after accession as abbess 1167.
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