Hortus deliciarum
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Description
The Script error: No such module "Lang". is one of the first sources of polyphony originating from a convent. The manuscript contained at least 20 song texts, all of which were originally notated with music. Those that can be recognized now are from the conductus repertory, and are mainly note against note in texture. The notation was in semi-quadratic neumes with pairs of four-line staves.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Two songs survive with music intact: Primus parens hominum, a monophonic song, and a two-part work, Sol oritur occasus.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
History and content
It was an illuminated encyclopedia, begun in 1167 as a pedagogical tool for young novices at the convent. It is the first encyclopedia that was evidently written by a woman. It was finished in 1185, and was one of the most celebrated illuminated manuscripts of the period.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The majority of the work is in Latin, with glosses in German. Most of the manuscript was not original, but a compendium of 12th-century knowledge. The manuscript contained poems, illustrations, and music, and drew from texts by classical and Arab writers.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Interspersed with writings from other sources were poems by Herrad, addressed to the nuns, almost all of which were set to music.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The most famous portion of the manuscript is its 336 illustrations, which depicted theological, philosophical, and literary themes amongst others. These works are well regarded.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
In 1870, the manuscript was burnt and destroyed when the library at Temple Neuf in Strasbourg was bombarded during the German Siege of Strasbourg. It is possible to reconstruct parts of the manuscript because portions of it had been copied in various sources; Christian Maurice Engelhardt copied the miniatures in 1818, and the text was copied and published by Straub and Keller between 1879 and 1899.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
Citations
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Sources
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Further reading
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- Rosalie Green, Michael Evans, Christine Bischoff, and Michael Curschmann(ed.) (1979) The Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenbourg (Landsberg, 1176-96): A Reconstruction. Warburg Institute/E.J. Brill
- Fiona J. Griffiths (2007) The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
External links
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- Folio selections in online catalog Oberlin college (folios 322v, 323r, Seven Liberal Arts - 32r, Genealogy of Christ - 80v, Leviathan- 84r, Psycomachia Vices - 200v, Psycomachia Virtues - 201r, Avarice - 203v, Mercy/Charity - 204r, Ladder of Virtues - 216r)
- Template:In lang 12 plates taken from the 1818 Engelhardt facsimile formerly online at Museum of Alsace (Web Archive copy retrieved 10-28-2012)
- Template:In lang Hortus Deliciarum by Straub and Keller. Strasbourg, 1899. Explanatory text begun by the canon A. Straub (died 1891) and concluded by the canon G. Keller. 1879-1899. Has pictures.
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