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A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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256 debra l. s<strong>to</strong>udt<br />

are useful in identifying elements unique <strong>to</strong> <strong>Hildegard</strong> as well as in understanding<br />

the traditional medical lore <strong>of</strong> the Middle Ages.33<br />

The question <strong>of</strong> authorship remains a thorny issue: Charles Singer’s<br />

designation <strong>of</strong> the works as spurious has been superseded by a cautious<br />

acceptance <strong>of</strong> the Physica and the Cause et cure as part <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hildegard</strong>’s corpus,<br />

with general agreement that they are based on a text prepared by the<br />

magistra.34 Hildebrandt suggests that the original by <strong>Hildegard</strong> consisted <strong>of</strong><br />

two columns <strong>of</strong> text: the foundational text (Grundtext) and the additional<br />

text (Zusatztext); he identifijies the former as the Liber simplicis medicinae<br />

and the latter as the Liber compositae medicinae.35 Recent scholarship has<br />

demonstrated that the extant manuscripts <strong>of</strong> the Physica and the Cause<br />

33 Among discussions <strong>of</strong> sources are Laurence Moulinier, Le manuscript perdu à Strasbourg.<br />

Enquête sur l’oeuvre scientifijique de <strong>Hildegard</strong>e (Paris, 1995), pp. 205–43; Reiner Hildebrandt,<br />

“Summarium Heinrici, das Lehrbuch der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>,” in Stand und<br />

Aufgaben der deutschen Dialektlexikographie, II. Brüder-Grimm-Symposion zur His<strong>to</strong>rischen<br />

Wortforschung. Beiträge zu der Marburger Tagung vom Ok<strong>to</strong>ber 1992, eds. Ernst Bremer and<br />

Reiner Hildebrandt (Berlin, 1996), pp. 89–110; Laurence Moulinier, “Ein Präzedenzfall der<br />

Kompendien-Literatur: Die Quellen der natur- und heilkundlichen Schriften <strong>Hildegard</strong>s<br />

von <strong>Bingen</strong>,” in <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Prophetin durch die Zeiten, pp. 431–47; and Peter<br />

Riethe, “Zur Quellengeschichte des ‘Steinkatalogs’ der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>: Die Abhängigkeit<br />

des IV. Buches der Brüsseler Handschrift von Bartholomaeus Anglicus,” Scrip<strong>to</strong>rium<br />

64 (2010): 95–108. Notable reception studies include Melitta Weiss-Amer [Weiss Adamson],<br />

“Die ‘Physica’ <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong> als Quelle für das ‘Kochbuch Meister Eberhards,’”<br />

Sudh<strong>of</strong>ffs Archiv 76 (1992): 87–96; Barbara Fehringer, Das ‘Speyerer Kräuterbuch’ mit den<br />

Heilpflanzen <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Eine Studie zur mittelhochdeutschen ‘Physica’-Rezeption<br />

mit kritischer Ausgabe des Textes (Würzburg, 1994); Melitta Weiss Adamson, “A Reevaluation<br />

<strong>of</strong> Saint <strong>Hildegard</strong>’s Physica in Light <strong>of</strong> the Latest Manuscript Finds,” in Manuscript Sources<br />

<strong>of</strong> Medieval Medicine. A Book <strong>of</strong> Essays, ed. Margaret R. Schleissner, Garland Medieval Casebooks<br />

8 (New York, 1995), pp. 55–80. Of note as well are several comparative studies: Annette<br />

Müller, Krankheitsbilder im Liber de plantis der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong> (1098–1179) und im<br />

Speyerer Kräuterbuch (1456): Ein Beitrag zur medizinisch-pharmazeutischen Terminologie<br />

im Mittelalter (Hürtgenwald, 1997); and Christine Mayer-Nicolai, Arzneipflanzenindikationen<br />

gestern und heute: <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>, Leonhart Fuchs und Hagers Handbuch im<br />

Vergleich (Baden-Baden, 2010).<br />

34 Charles Singer, “The Scientifijic Views and Visions <strong>of</strong> Saint <strong>Hildegard</strong> (1098–1180),”<br />

Studies in the His<strong>to</strong>ry and Method <strong>of</strong> Science (Oxford, 1917), especially pp. 12–15. Supplementing<br />

the discussion by Marianna Schrader and Adelgundis Führkötter, Die Echtheit des<br />

Schrifttums der heiligen <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>: quellenkritische Untersuchungen (Cologne,<br />

1956), pp. 54–59, are those <strong>of</strong> Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: <strong>Hildegard</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Bingen</strong> and Premodern Medicine. Studies in Medieval His<strong>to</strong>ry and Culture (New<br />

York, 2006), pp. 36–49; Michael Embach, Die Schriften <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Studien zu<br />

ihrer Überlieferung und Rezeption im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit (Berlin, 2003),<br />

pp. 287–99; and Laurence Moulinier, in the introduction <strong>to</strong> her critical edition, Cause,<br />

pp. XXX–LXII.<br />

35 Physica, pp. 5–10. In the introduction <strong>to</strong> her edition <strong>of</strong> the Physica, Müller also discusses<br />

the Zusatztexte, pp. XIX–XXIV.

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