MINIATURIST, German
(active 1043-1046 in Echternach)

The Golden Gospels of Henry III

1043-46
Manuscript (Cod. Vitr. 17), 500 x 335 mm
Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, El Escorial

On folio 2v is one of the dedication pictures of the manuscript. Kneeling at the foot of Christ are the much smaller figures of Emperor Conrad II and his consort Gisela, the parents of Henry III, who had Speyer Cathedral built and made it the burial place of the Salian dynasty.