Hildesheim - Bernwardstor Sündenfall

Adam und Eva, temptation and fall

bronze door of St. Bernward

Hildesheim, Dom (cathedral)

Bernwardstor Sündenfall

 

The Latin inscription below this and the neighbouring plate reads as follows:

 

An(no) Dom(inice) Inc(arnationis) MXV B(ernwardus) Ep(iscopus), Div(e) Mem(orie), has valvas fusiles, //

in facie(m) Angelici Te(m)pli ob monim(en)t(um) sui fec(it) suspendi.

 

Translation:

"In the year of the Lord's incarnation 1015 (AD), bishop Bernwardus - in holy memory -

caused this cast doors to be raised in front of his angelic temple as a monument (memorial)"

 

Source:

The Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace

von Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, John Burley Waring

London; Crystal palace library, 1854. (google.book)

page 74

 

Manfred Overesch, Alfhart Günther

Himmlisches Jerusalem in Hildesheim

St. Michael und das Geheimnis der sakralen Mathematik vor 1000 Jahren

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009 - ISBN 978-3-525-55004-5

page 194

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