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/* The Brezel or Pretzel */
- English Manuscript from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS373 3895B. It was made in the 12th century and depicts the wedding feast of Matilda and Henry V (Holy Roman Emperor) in 1114 AD. Again the brezel is on the table along with round bread, knives, dishes and bowls.
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- The last is from the "Hortus deliciarum" a manuscript written between 1167 and 1185 in Hohenburg, Alsace. The Manuscript was destroyed in 1870, and the images only survive as the copies made in 1818. The image depicts the biblical story of the marriage of Esther to King Ahasuerus, and again there is a brezel on the table among the other foods. Another image in the manuscript shows another table with food on which also shows a brezel.<br>===Discussion===The shape of the brezel in these images is not quite the same as the brezel from the later medieval period or the modern ones, which have a twist in the middle. These early brezel simply have the ends turned in on themselves so they touch at the top. But, importantly and distinctively, this still creates the three holes, which may representff the Holy Trinity.
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