# Psalter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript, 170 x 110 mm ## Commentary This miniature representing the Virgin and Child with Saints is the sole illustration to a psalter made for the use of a nun in a Middle Rhenish convent. It contains instructions written in Old German how to use images for private devotion. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 3 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/12\_cent/hildegard\_bingen\_frondens\_virga.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Hildegard of Bingen: O frondens Virga</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()