Written work
Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues)
Ordo Virtutum
A morality in which the personified Virtues (Humility, Charity, Chastity, Obedience, Discretion…) and the Patriarchs and Prophets accompany a Soul who, seduced by the Devil, leaves the way and returns wounded to be received and bandaged. The Devil, the only male character, does not sing: he only shouts. With some eighty-two songs, it is the oldest surviving music drama by a known author and precedes the vernacular moralities by a century.
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Authorship note
Liturgical drama with music, composed around 1151 (an abridged version closes Scivias); text and music in the Riesencodex. Probably performed at the consecration of Rupertsberg (1152) by the nuns themselves. Editions: Dronke, Nine Medieval Latin Plays (1994); Davidson (Medieval Institute, 1992).
Editions and translations
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Deutsch
Hildegard of Bingen
Ordo virtutum – Spiel der Kräfte
The Conscious Library
Latín
Hildegard of Bingen
The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies
The Conscious LibraryThe Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies
Medieval Institute Publications, 1992
ISBN 9781879288188
Ed. Audrey Ekdahl Davidson.
Español
Ordo Virtutum (edición bilingüe)
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2018
ISBN 9788491680185
Other works by Hildegard of Bingen
- Scivias (Know the Ways) · 1151
- The Book of Life's Merits (The Book of the Rewards of Life) · 1163
- The Book of Divine Works · 1174
- Physica (Book of the Subtleties of Creatures) · 1158
- Causes and Cures · 1158
- Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations · 1158
- Unknown Language and Unknown Letters · 1158
- Letters · 1179
- Homilies on the Gospels · 1170
- Minor Works · 1170
- Life of Saint Hildegard · 1187
- Life of Saint Disibod · 1170
- Life of Saint Rupert · 1170
- Explanation of the Rule of Benedict
- An Explanation of the Athanasian Creed
- Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions · 1176
- On the Excellence of Saint Martin
- Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times · 1220
Sources
- Hildegard of Bingen. Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum. Ed. y trad. Barbara Newman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988 (2.ª ed., 1998).
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