This illustration, a later (C20th?) copy of a C12th artwork, has a distinct circular or "mandala" shape, superimposed over a narrow vertical gold rectangle with a decorative border in mostly white. It depicts the nine choirs of angels in concentric circles around a pale void, symbolizing spiritual hierarchy and harmony within the universe. resembling a Eucharistic Host. They are like concentric ripples in a pond, with faces of red, white and green.

Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels, copy from the Rupertsberg manuscript, fol. 38r., C12th, by #HildegardofBingen (#HildegardvonBingen, German, C12th). Source, www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/hild...

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An illumination from a medieval manuscript - an abstract-looking orb depicts Hildegard's vision of living, dying and purgatory. There is a little drawing in the left bottom corner of a nun snugly enclosed in a little building with an open arch doorway, maybe a self-portrait.

The Parts of the Earth: Living, Dying, and Purgatory, MS 1942, fol. 88v, C13th copy of artwork of c. 1173, by #HildegardOfBingen (German, C12th). Held by Biblioteca Statale Lucca; source, www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/hild... #nuntastic #artherstory #FeastofStHildegard #StHildegard