Book of Hours of Hildegard von Bingen

Germany — ca. 1175-1180

Abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was a famous polymath of the High Middle Ages
She is celebrated inter alia as a writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, and visionary
72 Romanesque miniatures illustrated the texts of both the Old and New Testaments

Book of Hours of Hildegard von Bingen

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Hildegard-Gebetbuch

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Publisher: Reichert Verlag – Wiesbaden, 1982
Commentary: 1 volume
Language: German
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Lost in World War II: one of the main works by the famous abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen with her theological-cosmological findings

Preserved in Heidelberg today: the oldest and smallest of only three preserved Minnesang manuscripts from the Middle Ages

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