Further Readings about Hildegard
Art Reproductions
Scivias (1141-1151)Manuscripts: Of the ten known medieval manuscripts of Scivias, three are notable because they were produced in the Rupertsberg scriptorium: the illustrated manuscript Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 1, composed circa 1165, missing since 1945 (a handmade facsimile, produced between 1927 and 1933, is in the Bibliothek der Abtei Saint Hildegard, Eibingen); a second twelfth-century manuscript, Vatican City, Bibl. Apost. Vat., Cod. Pal. lat. 311; and the Riesenkodex, the "giant codex" prepared in the decade after Hildegard's death, containing the works for which she claimed unmediated divine inspiration (which may explain the omission of the medico-scientific works), Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2. Also illustrated is a twelfth-century manuscript, Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Sal. X, 16.First Publicaton In Liber trium virorum et trium spiritualium virginum, edited by Jacobus Faber (Paris, 1513); reprinted in Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 383-738.Standard edition: Hildegardis Scivias, edited by Adelgundis Führkötter and Angela Carlevaris, volumes 43 and 43A of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, 1978).Editions in English: Excerpts translated by Bruce Hozeski as Scivias: By Hildegard of Bingen (Santa Fe: Bear, 1986); translated by Columba Hart and Jane Bishop as Scivias: Hildegard of Bingen (New York: Paulist Press, 1990).
Epistolae (1147-1179)Manuscripts: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. lat. fol. 699, from the second half of the twelfth century; Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Cod. 5387-5396 and Cod. 5527-5534; Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. theol. phil. 4o, 253, from the third quarter of the twelfth century; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 881, from the third quarter of the twelfth century; Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. lat. 4o 674, from the beginning of the thirteenth century.First Publicaton: Sanctae Hildegardis abbatissae in Monte S. Roberti apud Naam fluuium, prope Bingam, sanctissimae uirginis et prophetissae, Epistolarum Liber, edited by Justus Blanckwald (Cologne: Johannis Quentel & Geruuinum Quentel, 1566).Standard edition: Hildegardis Bingensis: Epistolarium, volumes 91 and 91A of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, edited by Lieven van Acker (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991, 1993).Edition in English: Translated by Joseph L. Baird and Radd K. Ehrman as The Letters of Hildegard von Bingen, volume 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Subtilitates diversarum naturarum creaturarum, part 1: PhysicaLiber simplicis medicinae (circa 1151-1158) Manuscripts: The textual tradition of this work is obscure, with only one manuscript, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. 56, 2 Aug. 4o, dating from the thirteenth century. Two other manuscripts-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Cod. lat. 6952 and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Cod. 1494-date from the fifteenth century.First Publicaton Physica S. Hildegardis Elementorum, Fluminum aliquot Germaniae, Metallorum, Leguminum, Fructuum, et Herbarum: Arborum, et Arbustorum: Piscium denique, Volatilium, et Animantium terrae naturas et operationes IV Libris mirabili experientia posteritati tradens (Strasbourg: Joannem Schott, 1533).Standard edition: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, edited by Charles Daremberg and F. A. de Reuss, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1117-1352.
Subtilitates diversarum naturarum creaturarum, part 2: Causae et Curae or Liber compositae medicinae (circa 1151-1158) Manuscript: The unique thirteenth-century manuscript is preserved at Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, Ny. kgl. saml. 90b.First Publicaton Hildegardis Causae et Curae, edited by Paul Kaiser (Leipzig: Teubner, 1903).
Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum (1150s, with later additions and revisions)Manuscripts: Two late-twelfth-century manuscripts contain texts and music for the cycle. Although older, dating from around 1175, the manuscript St.-Pieters-&-Paulusabdij, Dendermonde Klosterbibliothek, Codex 9 is incomplete. Eighteen additional songs are included in the cycle as found in Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra, volume 8 of Analecta sacra (Monte Cassino, 1882), pp. 441-456.Standard edition and edition in modern German: Hildegard von Bingen: Lieder, edited by Pudentiana Barth and Joseph Schmidt-Görg (Salzburg: Müller, 1969).Standard edition and edition in English: Saint Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia, edited and translated by Barbara Newman (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988).
Ordo virtutum (1150s?) Manuscript: The work is included as part of the Symphonia in Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra, volume 8 of Analecta Sacra (Monte Cassino, 1882), pp. 457-465.Standard editions: In Peter Dronke, Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 180-192; The "Ordo virtutum," of Hildegard of Bingen, edited by Audrey Davidson (Kalamazoo, 1985).Edition in English: Translated by Peter Dronke, in record liner for Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum, recorded by Sequentia, Harmonia Mundi 20395/96 (1982).
Vita Sancti Ruperti (1150s?)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Hincmari Rhemensis archiepiscopi ... epistolae, edited by Joannes Busaeus (Mainz: I. Albini, 1602), pp. 361-371.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1081-1094; in Hildegardis Bigensis: Epistolarium, edited by Lieven van Acker, volume 91B of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?).
Lingua ignota; Litterae ignotae (1150s?)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. lat. 4o 674, from the beginning of the thirteenth century.First Publication: and standard edition: In Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra, volume 8 of Analecta Sacra (Monte Cassino, 1882), pp. 496-502.
Liber Vitae Meritorum (1158-1163)Manuscripts: There are four manuscripts dating from the twelfth century: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex); St.-Pieters-&-Paulusabdij, Dendermonde Klosterbibliothek, Codex 9; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. fol. 727, now in Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek; and Trier, Seminarbibliothek, Cod. 68.First Publication: and standard edition: In Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra, volume 8 of Analecta Sacra (Monte Cassino, 1882), pp. 7-244.
Liber Divinorum Operum or De Operatione Dei (1163-1173/1174)Manuscripts: Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. 241, circa 1170-1171; Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s; Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 683, from the twelfth century; and the illustrated manuscript Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, Cod. lat. 1942, from the early thirteenth century.First Publicaton In Stephani Baluzii Tutelensis Miscellanea novo ordine digesta et non paucis ineditis monumentis opportunisque animadversionibus aucta, opera et studio, 4 volumes, edited by Joannis Dominici Mansi (Lucca, 1761-1764), II: 377ff.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 739-1038; Hildegardis Liber Divinorum Operum, edited by Albert Derolez and Peter Dronke (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?). Edition in English: Abridged and translated by Matthew Fox, in Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works with Letters and Songs (Santa Fe: Bear, 1987).
Vita Sancti Disibodi (1170) Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Acta Sanctorum, edited by John Bolland, Godefroid Henskens, and others (Antwerp, Brussels, Tongerloo & Paris, 1643-1894), July, volume 2, pp. 588-597.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1093-1116; in Hildegardis Bigensis: Epistolarium, edited by Lieven van Acker, volume 91B of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?).
Solutiones triginta octo quaestionum (1178)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Biblioteca Patrum, volume 23 (Leyden: I. A. Huguetan, 1677), pp. 583-590.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1037-1054; in Hildegardis Bigensis: Epistolarium, edited by Lieven van Acker, volume 91B of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?).
Expositiones Evangeliorum (date unknown)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publication: and standard edition: In Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra, volume 8 of Analecta sacra (Monte Cassino, 1882), pp. 245-327.
Explanatio Regulae S. Benedicti (date unknown)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Biblioteca Patrum, volume 23 (Leyden: I. A. Huguetan, 1677), pp. 590-593.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1053-1066; in Hildegardis Bigensis: Epistolarium, edited by Lieven van Acker, volume 91B of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?).
Explanatio Symboli S. Athanasii (date unknown)Manuscript: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs 2 (Riesenkodex), from the 1180s.First Publicaton In Biblioteca Patrum, volume 23 (Leyden: I. A. Huguetan, 1677), pp. 594ff.Standard editions: In Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 1065-1082; in Hildegardis Bigensis: Epistolarium, edited by Lieven van Acker, volume 91B of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 1995?).
Further Readings about Hildegard
Werner Lauter, Hildegard-Bibliographie I (Alzey: Rheinhessischen Druckwerkstätte, 1970).
Lauter, Hildegard-Bibliographie II (Alzey: Rheinhessischen Druckwerkstätte, 1983).
"Vita Sanctae Hildegardis auctoribus Godefrido et Theodorico monachis, " in Sanctae Hildegardis abbatissae Opera omnia, volume 197 of Patrologia Latina, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, (Paris: Migne, 1855), cols. 91-130; translated by Anna Silvas as "Saint Hildegard of Bingen and the Vita Sanctae Hildegardis," Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review, 29 (1985): 22-25; 30 (1986): 63-73; 31 (1986): 32-41; 32 (1987): 46-59.
Monika zu Eltz, Hildegard von Bingen (Eibingen: Abtei Sankt Hildegard, 1972).
Adelgundis Führkötter, Hildegard von Bingen (Salzburg: Müller, 1972).
Eduard Gronau, Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179: Prophetische Lehrerin der Kirche an der Schwelle und am Ende der Neuzeit (Stein am Rhein: Christiana, 1985).
Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life (London: Routledge, 1989).
Godfrey and Theodoric, Vita Sanctae Hildegardis, edited by Monica Klaes, volume 126 of Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, 1993).
Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology (London: Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, 1990).
Anton Brück, ed., Hildegard von Bingen, 1179-1979: Festschrift zum 800 Todestag der Heiligen (Mainz: Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 1979).
Robert Cogan, "Hildegard's Fractal Antiphon," Sonus, 11 (1990): 1-19.
Peter Dronke, "The Composition of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia," Sacris Erudiri, 19 (1969-1970): 381-393.
Dronke, "Hildegard of Bingen as Poetess and Dramatist," in his Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970).
Dronke, "Problemata Hildegardiana," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 16 (1981): 97-131.
Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua ( 203) to Marguerite Porete (1310) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Pozzi Escot, "The Gothic Cathedral and Hidden Geometry of St. Hildegard," Sonus, 5 (1984): 14-31.
Escot, "Hildegard von Bingen: Universal Proportion," Sonus, 11 (1990): 33-40.
Sabina Flanagan, "Hildegard and the Global Possibilities of Music," Sonus, 11 (1990): 20-32.
Mary Ford-Grabowsky, "Angels and Archetypes: A Jungian Approach to St. Hildegard," American Benedictine Review, 41 (March 1990): 1-19.
Bruce W. Hozeski, "Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum: The Earliest Discovered Liturgical Morality Play," American Benedictine Review, 26 (September 1975): 251-259.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Kent Kraft, "The German Visionary: Hildegard of Bingen," in Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina Wilson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984), pp. 109-130.
Kraft, "Hermetic Embodiment in Hildegard of Bingen and William Blake," Sonus, 11 (1990): 41-52.
Hans Liebeschütz, Das allegorische Weltbild der hl. Hildegard von Bingen (Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1930).
Ruth Lightbourne, "The Question of Instruments and Dance in Hildegard of Bingen's Twelfth Century Music Drama Ordo Virtutem," Parergon, 9 (1991): 45-67.
Janet Martin and Greta Mary Hair, "O Ecclesia: The Text and Music of Hildegard of Bingen's Sequence for St. Ursula," Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review, 30 (1986): 3-62.
Constant J. Mews, "Heloise and Hildegard: Re-visioning Religious Life in the Twelfth Century," Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review, 44 (1993): 20-29.
Irmgard Müller, Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen (Salzburg: Müller, 1982).
Barbara Newman, "Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation," Church History, 54 (June 1985): 163-175.
Newman, Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
Michela Pereira, "Maternità e sessualità femminile in Ildegarda di Bingen: proposte di lettura," Quaderni storici, 44 (1980): 564-579.
Marianne Richert Pfau, "Mode and Melody Types in Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia," Sonus, 11 (1990): 53-71.
Hildegard Ryan, "St. Hildegard and St. Bernard," Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review, 42 (1992): 16-28.
Oliver Sacks, Migraine: The Understanding of a Common Disorder, second edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 57, 106-108.
Heinrich Schipperges, Die Welt der Engel bei Hildegard von Bingen, second edition (Salzburg: Müller, 1979).
Miriam Schmitt, "Blessed Jutta of Disibodenberg," American Benedictine Review, 40 (June 1989): 170-189.
Bernhard W. Scholz, "Hildegard von Bingen on the Nature of Woman," American Benedictine Review, 31 (December 1980): 361-383.
Marianna Schrader and Adelgundis Führkötter, Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen (Cologne & Graz: Böhlau, 1956).
Charles Singer, "The Scientific Views and Visions of St. Hildegard (1098-1179)," in his Studies in the History and Method of Science, first series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951), pp. 1-59.
Magna Ungrund, Die metaphysische Anthropologie der hl. Hildegard von Bingen (Münster: Aschendorff, 1938).
Lieven van Acker, "Der Briefwechsel der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen: Vorbemerkungen zu einer kritischen Edition," Revue bénédictine, 98 (1988): 141-168; 99 (1989): 118-154.
Bertha Widmer, Heilsordnung und Zeitgeschehen in der Mystik Hildegards von Bingen (Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1955).
U. Wiethaus, "Cathar Influences in Hildegard of Bingen's Play Ordo Virtutem," American Benedictine Review, 38 (June 1987): 192-203.
For full color reproductions of 24 of Hildegard's illuminations see:
"Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen," text by Hildegard of Bingen
with commentary by Matthew Fox. Sante Fe, New Mexico: Bear & Company,
1985. (Available from Amazon.com). Reproduction Rights for the illustrations in this book are from
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For a set of color 35 mm slide transparencies of Hildegard's
illuminations write to: Friends of Creation Spirituality,
PO Box 19216, Oakland, CA 94619.
Matthew Fox writes: "Twenty-one of the illuminations or visions
presented in this book and
much of the text come from Hildegard's first book, Scivias, written
while she was still living at Mount St. Disibode. The remaining visions
[3] and the text accompanying them -- are from her work
'De Operatione Dei,' completed in 1170. Other commentaries from
Hildegard that I have included in the text come from her letters, songs,
and poems. Regarding the illuminations from Scivias, it has been
established that all the visions were produced at the same time since the
scribe doing the textual work left room on the page in each instance for
the appropriate miniature. We do not know exactly who did the actual
painting. It was most likely either the monks of the abbey of St.
Eucharius in Trier, whose abbots were friends of Hildegard, or her own
sisters at Rupertsburg. What is most important, however, is that
Hildegard describes in great detail each of the images, and that she
supervised the entire operation of the paintings...These
illuminations have been called a "new Creation" because objects that
characterized medieval iconography were re-formed by Hildegard and
given a new presentation in her images."
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