Wessobrunn Prayer

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Alternative Titles: Prayer of Wessobrunn
Wessobrunner Gebet
Wessobronner Gebet
Wessobrunner Schöpfungsgedicht
Type: Manuscript on parchment
Size / Format: 99 folios / 18.5 × 14.1 cm
Origin: Diocese of Augsburg (Germany)
Date: About 814
Epochs: Early Middle Ages
Style: Carolingian
Genre: Private Devotion Books
Other Religious Books
Literature / Poetry
Language: Latin
German
Script: Carolingian miniscule
Illustrations: 18 half-page pen drawings
Content: The Wessobrunn Prayer (fol. 65v-66r) in Bavarian written language is the only larger German text in the otherwise Latin collective manuscript, in which more than seventy texts of mostly theological, but also geographic and chronological content have been

1 available facsimile edition(s) of „Wessobrunn Prayer“

Wessobrunner Gebet

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1 volume: Exact reproduction of the original document (extent, color and size)

Limited Edition: 300 copies
Binding: Leather binding with metal fittings and closing pin
Commentary: 1 volume by Carl von Kraus and Annette von Eckhardt
Language: German
More Information: Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.

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