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Margot Fassler, Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias, The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. xvii + 358 pp. + 16 colour plates. $65 / £54. ISBN 978 1 5128 2307 3.

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Margot Fassler, Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias, The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. xvii + 358 pp. + 16 colour plates. $65 / £54. ISBN 978 1 5128 2307 3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2025

Jennifer Bain
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Plainsong & Medieval Music , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , April 2025 , pp. 101 - 106
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1 Fassler, Margot, ‘Allegorical Architecture in Scivias: Hildegard’s setting for the Ordo virtutum ’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 67 (2014), 317–378 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 All references to Scivias are from the English translation, Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, trans. Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop, introduced by Barbara J. Newman, preface by Caroline Walker Bynum (New York, 1990), 525.

3 Dendermonde, St-Pieters & Paulusabdij, MS Cod. 9 (now held in Leuven, KU Leuven, Maurits Sabbe Library, no shelf number) and Wiesbaden, Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain, HS 2.

4 Bain, Jennifer, ‘History of a Book: Hildegard of Bingen’s “Riesencodex” and World War II’, Plainsong and Medieval Music, 27/2 (2018), 143–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar (shortened and translated into German as ‘Die Geschichte eines Buches: Der “Riesencodex” der Hildegard von Bingen und der Zweite Weltkrieg’, trans. Ursula Leffers, Nassauische Annalen, 132 (2021), 363–91), as well as a larger study building on my work by Christiane Heinemann, Der Riesencodex der Hildegard von Bingen: Verschollen – Gefunden – Gerettet Schicksalswege 1942 bis 1950 (Wiesbaden, 2021).

5 Gutjahr, Hiltrud and Zátonyi, Maura, Geschaut im Lebendigen Licht: Die Miniaturen des Liber Scivias der Hildegard von Bingen (Beuron, 2011), 7 Google Scholar.

6 https://abtei-st-hildegard.de/die-scivias-miniaturen/ (accessed 3 March 2025).

7 Barbara J. Newman, ‘Introduction’, in Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, 23.

8 https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/salX16 (accessed 3 March 2025).

9 Newman, ‘Introduction’, 25.