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On the Excellence of Saint Martin — Hildegard of Bingen

Traditional attribution

On the Excellence of Saint Martin

De excellentia sancti Martini (visio a Guiberto Gemblacensi exarata)

Hildegarda recibe la visión y la dicta a Volmar (Scivias de Rupertsberg)
byHildegard of Bingen

A short visionary text in praise of Saint Martin of Tours, a saint especially dear to Guibert, who wrote it up from what Hildegard told him. It illustrates the late collaboration between the visionary and her secretary, and the way others fixed her word in writing.

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Authorship note

A vision of Hildegard's written down by Guibert of Gembloux, her last secretary, during his stay at Rupertsberg (from 1177); the wording is Guibert's. Edited by Jeroen Deploige and Sara Moens in CCCM 226A (2016).

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Other works by Hildegard of Bingen

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  • Brepols Publishers. Hildegardis Bingensis, Opera minora II, ed. Christopher P. Evans, Jeroen Deploige, Sara Moens, Michael Embach y Kurt Gärtner. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 226A. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. ISBN 9782503548371 (ficha editorial con el índice del volumen).

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