Rogatrix atque donatrix: the silver cover of the Berta Evangeliary (Vatican, S. Maria in Via Lata, MS. I 45) and the patronage of art by women in early medieval Rome
Maria Laura Marchiori
A luxury silver manuscript cover in the Vatican Library bearing an inscription identifying patron as a nun named Berta offers opportunity to investigate patronage of art by women early medieval Rome. The housed evangeliary that served female monastic community SS. Ciriaco e Nicola Via Lata founded tenth century family Prince Alberic Rome (d. 954). This paper argues was product Roman monasticism had personal and liturgical significance for Berta, who scion monastery's founding family.
Early Medieval Europe