Bonmont Psalter, Besançon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 54

[Koen G]

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The female prayer formulas in Ms. 54 suggest that the Psalter originates from a double or a women's monastery. The entries of the death dates of mother Hemma von Husen and father Arnold by the scribe, scriptrix, as she explicitly calls herself, leave no doubt that a nun wrote the text.

The opening image in Besançon on fol. 7r (Fig. 2) following the richly illustrated calendar (Fig. 1) programmatically indicates the spiritual, female-mystical orientation of the pictorial program.