A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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of Hildegardian material. In volume 2 (cols. 1012–1133), this collection
included an additional 83 letters by Hildegard, along with the respective
answering epistles, as well as a letter of inquiry to Hildegard, which was
copied at Himmerod Abbey from a manuscript that is currently missing.
There remains fijinally the late mention of the fact that J.-P. Migne dedicated
the entire volume 197 of his Patrologia Latina to the writings of Hildegard
of Bingen (Paris, 1855; reprint, 1882).
Today, a great number of Hildegard’s works are available in historicalcritical
editions published in the series Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio
Mediaevalis. In an unbroken line of tradition, Hildegard’s works illuminate
a time period of over 800 years and serve as proof of the undiminished
vitality of their visionary author.