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Detail from Cotton Faustina manuscript B. VII, folio 42v, showing a "Scutum Fidei" or Shield of the Trinity triangular diagram, with a representation of Christ on the cross.

This is part of a ca. 1210 illustration to the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers (or Petrus Pictaviensis).

The Latin text on the shield in the image includes the words or scribal abbreviations for "PATER" (the Father), "SPIRITUS SANCTUS" (the Holy Spirit), and "FILIUS" (the Son) in the three outer nodes, and "DEUS" (God) in the center node. The text in the links connecting the outer nodes to each other reads "NON EST" (Is not), while the text along the links connecting the center node to the outer nodes reads "EST" (Is).

For the history and meaning of this general "Shield of the Trinity" or "Scutum Fidei" diagram of traditional western Christian symbolism (a visual summary of the first part of the Athanasian Creed), see the main article en:Shield of the Trinity. The reason for placing "Filius" in the bottom node of this version of the diagram, with a illuminated representation of the Crucifixion above it, is presumably the same as for a ca. 1250 version of the diagram included in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora, where the diagram was annotated with the Latin Vulgate version of the Biblical passage meaning "The Word was made flesh" (from the Gospel of John, verse 1:14).

This is the chronologically earliest known version of the Scutum Fidei or

Shield of the Trinity diagram.

Date

circa 1210

Source

British Library

	Native name	British Library
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 31′ 46″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W
	Established	1 July 1973
	Website	www.bl.uk
	Authority file	: Q23308 VIAF: 121814978 ISNI: 0000000123081542 ULAN: 500301700 LCCN: n81139951 NLA: 36588116 WorldCat

Author

Unknown (13th century scribe)

Other versions

For a partial SVG version of the structure of this diagram (which does not attempt to reproduce its exact visual appearance, and with the detailed artistic illumination of Christ on the cross replaced by a simple Latin Cross, etc.), see File:Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-earliest-and-latest-major-variants.svg .

For other versions of the diagram on Wikimedia Commons, see Image:Wernigeroder_Wappenbuch_010.jpg, Image:3enighed.svg, Image:Trinidad-Anglican-Episcopal-Coat-of-Arms.svg, Image:Shield-Trinity-medievalesque.svg, Image:Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg, Image:Trinity knight shield.jpg, etc.

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	18:35, 20 November 2007		494 × 568 (52 KB)	AnonMoos	== Summary == Detail from Cotton Faustina manuscript B. VII, folio 42v, showing a "Scutum Fidei" or Shield of the Trinity triangular diagram, with a representation of Christ on the cross. This is part of a ca. 1210 illustrat