medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
> 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.
Pretty much that. The Rupertsberg manuscript was the "best" MS, rather than
being necessarily "the original" one. It was "lost" during the war, rather
than being known to have been destroyed. There are only black and white
photographs of it - the colour ones are from the modern copy.
John Briggs
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