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From: Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
> Does anyone happen to know where I could download some projectable-size
illustrations of illuminations from the mss. of Hildegard of Bingen's works?
> I can find may here and there on the internet, but they all seem to be
low-resolution. Any help greatly appreciated.
i looked for some of those myself, Paul, a few years ago, with No Joy.
i doubt if you will find anything above 72dpi --and in a very small format,
esp. if you increase the dpi-- on the web.
your best shot might be to get the 2 vol. Brepols (Corpus Christianorum) ed.
on ILL and scan them yourself.
the repros there are quite good, though they will probably still look like
they have been taken from a book.
one of the most interesting things about "the manuscript of H.'s works" is
that (as i understood it, some years ago), it is a c. 1920 copy, made by nuns
in her former convent, from the 12th c. original, which was lost in the Second
Acute Collective Psychotic Episode.
comparing the Brepols ed. with the few B&W pre-war published pages i could
find led me to think that the copy is an astonishingly accurate and faithful
reproduction of the original.
c
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