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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> > 4) Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179). > Two views of an illumination of H. with prior Volmar (_Liber Scivias_; Hessische Landesbibliothek, Wiesbaden, Hs. 2 [the so-called Riesencodex], c. 1180): > http://www.oglethorpe.edu/faculty/~j_bohart/images/hildegaard.JPG > http://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/hildegard.jpg my understanding (from the introduction to the beautiful Corpus Christianorum edition, but read many, many years ago) is that the original ms. of the Scivias was destroyed in the Second Acute Collective Psychotic Episode and what we have left is actually a copy --albeit a quite amazingly accurate one-- made by nuns of her abbey in the 1920s or so. seems like i remember seeing, in the CC ed., a B&W plate of the original, which appeared to be virtually identical to the color plate which that edition published (i think that all of the illuminations were reproduced in that two volume edition). correct me, someone, before i hallucinate again. c ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html