Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Title: Community of Hohenbourg, detail: Hohenbourg Canonesses
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  • Description: 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.
  • Source: WikiMedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Canonesses Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg- Hortus Deliciarum Monasticism
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 12; 19
  • Date: 1170; copied 1818
  • Related Work: Hortus Deliciarum. See full manuscript page at: http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/upload/q3371887.jpg
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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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  • 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).