# Meditations of St Anselm [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1101-1150 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Auct. D.2.6\) ## Commentary Meditations of St Anselm 12th century Manuscript \(Ms. Auct. D.2.6\) Bodleian Library, Oxford The Meditations of St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury \(died 1109\), became one of the great medieval texts of spiritual comfort. This twelfth-century copy was made for a monastery dedicated to St Peter. The miniature here \(a detail of folio 169r\) shows Christ giving the keys of Heaven to St Peter, who then, in turn, receives the souls of the faithful into Heaven. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()