Codex Guta Sintram

It was produced for the female Augustinian community of Schwarzenthann Convent in 1154. The codex received its name from those of its scribe and illuminator, Guta (canoness) and Sintram. Guta was a canoness in Schwartzenthann. She identified herself as a scribe multiple times within the manuscript. Sintram was a canon and priest in Marbach and the artist who completed the manuscript's illuminations. The dedicatory miniature depicts the Virgin Mary (centre), Sintram (to her right), and Guta (to her left). This is one of the only known depictions of a female scribe from the Middle Ages.

• Illustration — Decorated initial "P" within the homiliary (detail). The manuscript is written on parchment and decorated in the Romanesque style. It is 356 by. The binding is leather and of the seventeenth century (1682). In its current form, the manuscript consists of 163 folios. The texts within the manuscript are written in Latin. The constituent texts of the manuscript include: • a martyrology/necrology (saints and other deceased, listed in calendrical order): this portion of the manuscript also includes medicinal and dietary advice • a homiliary • Augustinian rules It is interesting to note that many of the texts within this manuscript would have been suited for public reading during the morning meeting in chapter after Prime: the martyrology, the necrology, and the Rule were all to be read on this occasion.