Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Title: Community of Hohenbourg, detail: Abbess Herrad
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Description: Herrad holds a scroll that contains an address to her canonesses. From a full-page image of the canonesses present at Hohenbourg at the time of the creation of the Hortus Deliciarum, written circa 1170, destroyed 1871 during the Siege of Strasbourg. The manuscript survives only in 19th-century copies. This image was copied by Christian Moritz Engelhardt.
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Rights: Public domain
Subject (See Also): Abbesses Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg- Hortus Deliciarum Monasticism
Geographic Area: France
Century: 12; 19
Date: 1170; copied 1818
Related Work: Hortus Deliciarum
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Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment)
Donor: Female religious; Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg
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Inscription: Above Herrad: "Herrat Hohenburgensis abbatissa post Rilindam ordinata ac monitis et exemplis ejus instituta." [Herrad of Hohenburg, abbess ordained after Relinda and trained through her advice and example.] On Herrad's scroll: "O nivei flores dantes virtu
Related Resources: Engelhardt, C.M. Herrad von Landsperg, Aebtissin zu Hohenburg…und ihr Werk: Hortus deliciarum (Stuttgart and Tübinger, 1818), Pl. XII. See also Hortus Deliciarum, ed. R. Green et al., vol. I and II (London: The Warburg Institute, 1979, No. 346).