Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis, Celestial Influences on Men, Animals and Plants by Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - September 17, 1179) was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscri


Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis, Celestial Influences on Men, Animals and Plants by Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - September 17, 1179) was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.


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