(Q21324)

This initial contains the image known as Anna Selbdritt. 'Selbdrit' is a German term roughly translated as 'three-selves' and meant to illustrate St. Anne's role in sacred history as the Mother of the Virgin Mary. The image is related to the theme of Christ's holy kinship. St. Anne was a popular saint in the late Middle Ages. The initial may have originally belonged in a hagiographical...