Gisela of Kerzenbroeck, or, as she is also known, Gisela von Kerssenbrock, was a nun in the Cistercian convent of Marienbrunn, located in Rulle, a little village in the lower Saxony, near Osnabrück. She was one of the very few women who dedicated their life to writing and illustrating manuscripts.
Her most famous work is the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock, or Codex Gisle, written around the XIV Century.
The book contains 53 historiated initials, depicting the life of Christ, from the visit of Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin to his Ascension to Heaven. This great number of images, very literal in their quotation of the Liturgy, makes this book one of the most decorated manuscript of its genre.

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Facsimile edition (Der Codex Gisle) published by Quaternio Verlag Luzern in 2014.

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