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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Bavaria, Germany

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• The Fifth Elder
   
• This miniature illustrates Otto von Passau's Twenty-Four Elders, a fourteenth-century treatise developed around the Book of Revelation 4:4, in which each of the elders discourses on an aspect of Christian life, such as Seeking God, Grace, and Penance. The Free Library's miniature depicts the fifth elder, who spoke on Conscience. The passage from Revelation describes the elders as wearing crowns of gold and white garments. The artist of this manuscript, however, dressed the elders in bright colors, as we can see in this miniature and in twelve sister leaves, which are housed in various European libraries.
   
• This cutting can be dated to ca. 1450.
   

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• 15th century
• Germany
• German
• Illustration
• Theology
• Fragment

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