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Guda the Illuminator

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12th-century German nun who created one of the earliest female self-portraits in the Homiliary of St. Bartholomew around 1150.

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"Guda added her self-portrait to the Homiliary of St. Bartholomew, a manuscript she wrote and illustrated in Germany in the early 1100s. She placed herself inside a large decorated initial at the beginning of a homily by St. John Chrysostom, holding a scroll that reads, 'Guda peccatrix mulier scripsi"
"Guda added her self-portrait to the Homiliary of St. Bartholomew, a manuscript she wrote and illustrated in Germany in the early 1100s. She placed herself inside a large decorated initial at the beginning of a homily by St. John Chrysostom, holding a scroll that reads, "Guda peccatrix mulier scripsi"
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