Gisela of Kerzenbroeck

German artist (died 1300)

Codes Gisle, Easter page

Gisela of Kerzenbroeck or Gisela von Kerssenbrock (died by 1300) was a nun in the northern German city of Rulle who probably worked most of her life writing and illustrating manuscripts, as well as being choirmistress.

## Codex Gisle

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Gisela de Kerzenbroeck is documented only as the creator of what is now known as Codex Gisle or "Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock", a gradual made for the Cistercian convent of Rulle near Osnabrück in Westphalia, and now in Osnabrück.[1] The following words are inscribed in a fourteenth-century charterhand on the first folio:

> The venerable and devout virgin Gisela de Kerzenbroeck wrote, illuminated, notated, paginated, and decorated in gold letters and beautiful images this extraordinary book in her own memory, in the year of the Lord 1300. May her soul rest in peace. Amen.

This inscription was added after Gisela’s death, although possibly some considerable time after, judging from the style of the manuscript .[2][3][4]

The manuscript contains 52 historiated initials, two of which include portraits of Gisela, marked with tituli.[5]

## Notes

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1. ^ Taylor, Jane H.M. (1997). Smith, Lesley (ed.). Women and the book: assessing the visual evidence (1st ed.). London: British Library. ISBN 0712304983.
2. ^ Strange, A. (1934). Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, I. Munich.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. ^ Jaeger (1902). "Die Heimat der Graduale der Gisela von Kerssenbrock". Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. 27: 301.
4. ^ Beer, 152-153
5. ^ Oliver, Judith H.; Kerssenbrock.), Gisela (von (July 26, 2007). Singing with Angels: Liturgy, Music, and Art in the Gradual of Gisela Von Kerssenbrock. Isd. ISBN 9782503516806 - via Google Books.

## References

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(all in German)

* Beer, Ellen J., Gotische Buchmalerei: Literatur von 1945 bis 1961 (Fortsetzung und Schluß), Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 28, H. 1/2 (1965), pp. 134–158, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, Munchen & Berlin, JSTOR
* Osnabrück, Gymnasium Carolinum und Bischofliches Generalvikariat, MS C. Dolfen, Codex Gisle (Berlin, 1926)
* R. Kroos, ‘Der Codex Gisle I. Forschungsbericht und Datierung’, Niederdeutsche Beitrage fur Kunstgeschichte, 12 (1973), pp. 117–34
* H. Feldwisch-Drentrup and A. Jung, Dom und Domschatz in Osnabrück (Stuttgart, 1980), pp. 32 and 68
* Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Stadt im Wandel: Kunst und Kultur des Bürgertums in Norddeutschland 1160-1659 (Braunschweig, 1985), no.1084, pp. 1246–49 by R. Kroos.

## Further reading

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* Singing with Angels: Liturgy, Music and Art in the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock by Judith H. Oliver, BREPOLS, 2007

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