Description: A robed figure, whose face is completely obscured by emanating rays of golden light, crosses his arms over his head and hold two golden suns, one in either hand. A third sun shines at his feet.
Interpretation: Viewers were intended to respond to the image as if it were in fact a mystic vision of the Godhead. It is a simulacrum of the ultimate vision mystics aspired to.
miniature
Flanders or Upper Rhineland
There are 15 extant miniatures of the original 20 representations of the Holy Trinity.
Rothschild Canticles (f. 40r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 42r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 75r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 79r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 83r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 84r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 88r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 90r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 92r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 94r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 96r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 98r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 100r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 102r): TrinityRothschild Canticles (f. 104r): Trinity
Collection of William Alexander Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
Reverend Walter Sneyd, gift from Douglas in 1856.
Sotheby, sold 16 December 1903, no.513 Bernard Quaritch, London.
Collection of Edmond de Rothschild, MS 98, sold 24 June 1968 no.1 in Paris, Palais Galliéra.
Acquired from H.P. Kraus in 1968 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Les images: des objets pour l'historien?
Revelation and concealment : apophatic imagery in the Trinitarian miniatures of the Rothschild canticles
The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300, 118-142.
Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary, 91, 93.
Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection
