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This #manuscript contains the Wessobrunner Gebet or Prayer of Wessobrunn and 70 other short, mainly theological texts. The prayer itself, in prose, which gives the text as a whole its name, is preceded by a short creation poem, which, in nine lines of alliterative verse, seeks to explain the creation of the world out of chaos. This small literary monument is among the earliest written examples of poetry in Old High German and is found of a composite manuscript mainly written in Latin ca. 814, which can be determined from a mention of the death of Charlemagne on the last page. The manuscript is also significant for the history of German #illumination, containing 18 half-page #miniatures concerning the legend of the True Cross, which represent one of the earliest picture cycles of non-biblical content in the history of German illumination.

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